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Former Concrete High School wrestling coach Mark Evan Brown is losing his job as principal of Highland Christian Schools in Arlington after being charged with the rape of a 14-year-old girl.

Brown was charged Thursday with third-degree rape and booked into Snohomish County Jail, accused of having sex with a student of the Arlington school. According to Snohomish County court documents, Brown and the 14-year-old exchanged hundreds of text messages and phone calls.

Some of his text messages encouraged the girl to run away from home, the documents state. Brown then set up a place for her to sleep with a hide-a-bed and a television at the school, the place of the alleged sex crime.

Brown has never been criminally charged with any sex crimes in Skagit County but was under investigation in March 2004 for an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old Concrete High School student while he was the wrestling coach there, according to Will Reichardt, chief criminal deputy for the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office.

The Skagit County Sheriff’s Office has no plans to re-open the Concrete case in light of the Arlington charges, Reichardt said.

Brown coached at Concrete High School from 2002 to 2004.

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