The head football coach at a south Alabama high school was arrested Friday in Florida on nearly a dozen criminal charges.
Clarke County High School Coach Robert “Rob” Carter was taken into custody in Niceville.
Clarke County Sheriff DeWayne Smith confirmed the arrest to AL.com and said Carter is awaiting extradition to Alabama.
Smith said he could not confirm what exactly the warrants are until they are executed.
“That will happen when he is extradited here,” Smith said. “That process can go fast but can take awhile as well.”
Carter is being held in Florida on a fugitive from justice warrant.
Until Carter is served with those warrants, the charges are not public record, authorities said.
Beauregard coach Rob Carter celebrates the 27-13 win over Wenonah in the AHSAA Super 7 Class 5A championship at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. (Julie Bennett/jbennett@al.com)Julie Bennett | preps@al.com
Carter is 15-10 in two seasons as Clarke County’s head coach. His team went 8-4 in Class 2A in 2024, losing at Ariton in the second round of the playoffs.
He spent seven years, from 2014 until 2020, as head coach at Beauregard, leading the team to the Class 5A state title in 2016.
He was head coach at Sylacauga in 2021 and 2022.
In 12 years overall as a head coach, he is 73-51 with a 12-7 playoff record.
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