A former Tucson High Magnet School counselor was arrested this week on allegations of a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student, police said Friday.
Zobella Brazil Vinik, 29, was booked into the Pima County jail on Wednesday on suspicion of one count of sexual conduct with a minor.
The Tucson Police Department Child Sexual Assault Unit received a report on May 3 of an off-campus, inappropriate relationship between Vinik, who was a counselor at the school until resigning on May 5, and the student, who attends Tucson High, police said in a news release. Detectives investigated, served search warrants and found probable cause to arrest Vinik, police said.
The student had been living with Vinik, according to the interim complaint filed with Pima County Consolidated Justice Court.
In a search of both of the parties’ cellphones, detectives found messages between Vinik and the student that supported there was a “sexual/romantic relationship,” the complaint says.