Frisco high school choir teacher charged with soliciting minor for sex

A choir teacher in the Frisco Independent School District was arrested after an undercover operation revealed he sent a series of sexual messages to a person he believed to be a 15-year-boy.

Brett Kevin Yzquierdo, 28, of Plano, was charged with third-degree online solicitation of a minor, according to an arrest warrant provided by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office. The agency learned during the investigation Yzquierdo has been employed as a choir teacher at Reedy High School in Frisco.

He was hired in August 2019, the Frisco Independent School District said in a statement. He has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the Sheriff’s Office investigation.

Parents in the district have been informed of the investigation, according to the statement.

Frisco ISD has no reason to believe the “isolated incident” involved any students, spokesman Matt Wixon said in the statement.

“Allegations and charges of this nature are disturbing and the District takes these matters very seriously,” Wixon said. “The safety of every FISD student is our top priority.

His name doesn’t appear on the online high school staff page. There is no choir teacher listed.

Detective Jessica Brittain, a Sheriff’s Office veteran of 11 years, began messaging with Yzquierda on Feb. 21 on the dating app Grindr while purporting to be a 15-year-old boy, the warrant states. The photo on the account was of a corrections officer with the Sheriff’s Office who authorized the use of his photos in the undercover operation.

Yzquierdo initiated a conversation and sent a selfie to the profile created by Brittain, according to the warrant. When she asked what brought him onto the app, he said it was his first time and he was hoping to see what it was all about.

He sent a message to the profile asking his age, and when Brittain told him — under her alias — that he was younger than 18, Yzquierda reportedly responded, “Lol that’s ok too, I don’t honestly care.”

He told Brittain he was chaperoning on a trip for work, explaining he was a teacher, and Yzquierda said, “I didn’t really think of that lol,” the warrant states. After they moved their conversation to text message, he told him his name was Brett and he taught choir.

The warrant shows Brittain sent a message saying “being 15 sucks,” which didn’t deter Yzquierda.

“Lol oh so not quite 18 (laughy face), that doesn’t matter to me tbh lol,” he reportedly said in a text.

The two then engaged in a discussion about sex acts, with the undercover agent posing questions as well as answering questions from Yzquierda.

The undercover agent asked Yzquierda if he had ever been with someone his age, and he said, “Lol nooooo.”

Brittain was able to confirm Yzquierda was behind the Grindr account by comparing his personal photos to the photo on his Texas driver’s license. She also confirmed he was a choir teacher at Reedy High School.

The Sheriff’s Office arrested him with the help of the Frisco Police Department, according to a news release.

Sheriff Bill Waybourn said in the release, “Our promise is that we will never stop hunting down people who commit these crimes.”

“We will find you, we will arrest you and we will work to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law,” he said.

This story was originally published February 29, 2020 at 3:56 PM.