POCATELLO — A former Highland High School assistant wrestling coach recently pleaded not guilty to soliciting nude photographs from two students.

Destiny Creed Summers, 25, of Blackfoot, faces two felony sexual battery charges for conduct that occurred this past fall, according to police and court records the Idaho State Journal obtained Tuesday.

Summers was employed by the Pocatello-Chubbuck School District from Sept. 5, 2024 to Dec. 10, 2024, with his employment as one of Highland High School’s assistant wrestling coaches ending the day after a student reported to the school’s Athletic Director Travis Bell that Summers had been sending inappropriate text messages and asking for nude photographs.

Bell on Dec. 9, 2024, immediately contacted law enforcement to investigate Summers, who also went by the first name Destin and had been a volunteer coach and around students during open mats before being hired shortly before the wrestling season began, court records show.

The reporting student said Summers added them on Instagram and Snapchat and the pair began talking, first about wrestling “and then it digressed to asking for pictures that were pornographic in nature,” the police report says. The student said they had photos and video sent to them by another student who had “already fallen victim” to Summers’ requests, police said.

The officer who initially responded to the school then asked for a Pocatello police detective to conduct an interview with both victims.

One student described Summers as being “sexually weird,” adding that he asked them what their “body count” was, of which the detective knew from previous cases to be a request to know how many sexual partners they’ve had, according to the report. Both victims in this case were 17-years-old at the time, court records show.

One of the victims reported that Summers asked if they could engage in sexual intercourse in his truck, police said.

The victims had screenshots of Snapchat messages in which Summers sent them nude photographs of himself and a video of him engaging in a sexual act.

The detective then interviewed Summers who initially admitted to communicating with the victims but said there was nothing sexual in nature that occurred.

Summers later told officers he sent nude images and a video of himself via Snapchat after one of the victims sent him similar content, said police, adding that he also admitted to sending one of the victims $30 to prevent them from reporting their conversations.

Summers stated he deleted all messages and images from his phone, police said.

What began as student reports evolved into a comprehensive digital investigation.

Police obtained search warrants for Summers’ social media platforms including Snapchat and Instagram and conducted forensic examinations of his cell phone and one of the victim’s phones. Police obtained digital evidence supporting the allegations, which were stored on a 16-gigabyte flash drive in police evidence, according to the report.

Summers was officially charged on April 8, 2025.

Court records do not detail if Summers was arrested but a warrant was issued when charges were brought forward and court records show he appeared for a video arraignment hearing on May 8.

He waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was arraigned in district court after appearing remotely on July 28, court records show.

Summers is set to take his case to trial on Oct. 21.