Deputy who doubled when SHS Wrestling Coach resigned after SBI examination

A former high school wrestling trainer who resigned under a cloud of controversies in December has now also resigned from his daily job at the Alamance County's Sheriff office.

According to district staff notes, Jim Giannotti officially finished his career on Wednesday, February 26, with the Sheriff's office -since he had resigned as chief -wrestling trainer at the South School.

Giannotti originally entered the sheriff's office on April 8, 2019 and served as a school resource representative at the EM elementary school for a while.

Giannotti's position as a non -commissioned officer at the Sheriff's Office was examined in December when allegations had appeared for an incident at the Southern High School, in which the wrestling personnel allegedly did not report on a concussion that a student reported wrestlers during a practice on December 3.

Although school system officer was a mother about the allegations against Giannotti, other sources have informed The Alamance News That they were about a draconian exercise that an athlete endured with a teammate after a spit.

From the officials from Giannotti's later resignation did not expressly attributed to the alleged concussion as Head Wrestling coach on December 9, but confirmed for the newspaper that an internal examination was underway.

Some members of the Southern High School Community later described the injured athlete as a subclass man who was forced to wrestle each member of the team, individually, as a form of “punishment” for an argument with wrestler. This wrestler, Carson Giannotti, is a junior at the Southern High School and the son of the now expensive wrestling coach. The newspaper could not check whether the allegations are due to an intra-team disease difference of the coach's son.

The newspaper was unable to verify the claims that coach Giannotti said according to the argument of the lower class that he could “either be exposed to the team or face the circle of death”, which was compared with the “bull in the ring” in which a player in the middle of a circle is laid, while the other players take the border and attack on him in the gymnastics bending and attack him.

According to reports, the UnderClassman wrestler became sick and left the gym at one point to hand over. While coach Giannotti had left the practice with his responsible co -trainers, nobody reported the wrestler's injuries. The injured wrestler was later taken to a hospital, where he was treated with a violation of the head, was diagnosed with a concussion, and exposes to a source that refused to speak in the recording, but he knew the family of the wrestler.

The Alamance News could not verify any claims to the alleged injuries to the wrestler on December 3.

Nobody who is directly involved with the incident – including the head coach or the family of the injured wrestler – would agree to be interviewed in the recording.

Sheriff must be deleted outside of employment

Terry Johnson, Sheriff of Alamance County, recently told the newspaper that he was not aware of Giannotti's employment as a boss -wrestling trainer at the South School.

Johnson said that he had the politics that all of his employees must have its permission before accepting external employment. Giannotti had been given the permission of the sheriff to work as a deputy football coach at the Western High School, but not for permission to work as a chief wrestling trainer in Southern, Johnson said in an earlier interview.

In the meantime, the Sheriff's office ceased to investigate Giannotti after the allegations due to the violations of the wrestler in early December. According to Alamance County, Rik Stevens, he was re -assigned on February 2 as a prison for prison.

The district prosecutor of Alamance County, Sean Boone, said that an investigation of the role of Giannotti was transferred to the State Bureau of Investigation in the incident at the South School.

“Since the case concerns people who have employment with the law enforcement authorities, the SBI was asked to research,” said Boone in an interview on Monday morning. The then confirmed for the newspaper that it is a standard procedure to ask the SBI to intervene if the topic of an investigation “in the same jurisdiction that is examined is used in law enforcement authorities”.

Boone referred the case to Caswell/Rockingham County there

Boone added that the case was only handed over to the public prosecutor's office of Caswell/Rockingham, which he is part of a public prosecutor who was supervised by Da Kathryn Gregg.

The case was sent to Gregg's office to avoid a conflict of interest or the appearance of one for him, and Boone worked out.

“As soon as I knew some of the names, it was a very accelerated process to determine where he had to go,” explained Boone. “I kept myself distant because it would be inappropriate for me to involve myself in something that is not treated in this office.”

Boone also confirmed that he had “worked directly and indirectly with this person” – Giannotti, on which he in the past 15 years or so, including the last six as the district, during his term in office with the office of the da

Boone emphasized that his justification for the transfer of the case is to another DA office to build up and maintain public trust in the judicial system so that the citizens of Alamance County “were not influenced by local politics” or know relationships.

From his last day on Wednesday, Giannotti's last salary for his position at the Sheriff's Office 77,197.96, confirmed district officials for the newspaper.

The 47 -year -old Giannotti has been at ABSS since January 3, 2000 and was initially a co -coach in the extraordinary children's program. In February 2004, he became a replacement teacher and substitute bus driver based on information that ABSS officers responded in response to a request from the public records of, from The Alamance News.

Giannotti had received a scholarship of $ 2,133 for his last position as chief wrestling coach in Southern. The scholarship for its deputy football coaching position at the Western High School was $ 2,553 per season, based on the information based on the information from the newspaper in response to the request of the public records.

HAW River Police Sergeant was also involved in an incident in the south wall

Giannotti's resignation of December 9th as the chief wrestling coach in Southern fell with the resignation of one of his voluntary co -trainers.

Jeffrey Ellis resigned on December 9th from his unpaid position as a deputy wrestling trainer at the Southern High School, based on a recently approved personnel report approved by the school authority.

Ellis is employed as Sergeant at the HAW River Police Department and is currently assigned as a school resource representative at the HAW River Elementary School, Haw River Police Chief Toby Harrison confirmed on Wednesday for Wednesday The Alamance News.

The chief of police confirmed for the newspaper that Ellis is still busy with the HAW River Police Department, where he has been employed for about five to six years.

Harrison said that an independent criminal investigation in Ellis' alleged participation in the incident in the Southern High School was carried out, but he could not publish any details about the examination because it contains a confidential personnel matter.

“I can't go into detail, but he was a coach,” Harrison told the newspaper on Wednesday.

Kristy Mills, director of the Southern High School, informed the wrestling team on Monday, December 9, that a practice and two meetings planned for this week were canceled because the head coach had resigned, and several other coaches were “suspended until an ongoing examination”.

None of the trainers were identified in Mills' e -mail.

“At this point, none of our other wrestling trainers is available to keep the team,” Mills wrote their e -mail to the team. Mills cited the practice of the school system to trust confidentiality for “personnel affairs” and did not expressly appeal the alleged injuries to the student wrestler in their email to the team, but said that “security and well-being of our student athletes remain our top priority”.

In connection with the incident on the Southern High School, no criminal charges or civil lawsuits seem to be pending against Giannotti or Ellis. This emerges from information currently available via the online registration system of the state, Ecourts.

The online court database was launched in 62 of the 100 counties of the state. According to the NC Justicial Branch, Caswell/Rockingham County's court system will not be released in County County in July 2025.