Coral Springs High School Athletic Director arrested in illegal gym rental scheme

The Coral Springs High School athletic director has become the latest arrest in a slew of Broward County coaches and employees accused of illegally renting out their schools’ gyms and pocketing the money.

Brandon Wesley, 48, was named the CSHS athletic director in 2019, also serving as the head of security. He’s charged with organized scheme to defraud $20,000 or less, and grand theft over $10,000 and under $20,000.

Wesley’s May 7 arrest comes months after the arrests of Coral Springs High School girls basketball coaches Brenton Hankerson and Donald Calloway, who will both go through misdemeanor diversion programs rather than face conviction in the gym rental scheme.

Other coaches across Broward County Public Schools are also being prosecuted.

A day after Wesley was arrested, Coral Springs resident and Boyd Anderson High School assistant coach Cedric Smith was taken into custody on charges of organized scheme to defraud, and grand theft over $5,000 and under $10,000.

Smith and Wesley, no longer listed as the AD at Coral Springs High as of May 11, are accused of hosting under-the-table basketball tournaments with outside organizations at school gymnasiums and keeping the money for themselves, instead of going through the district’s Facilitron rental system.

Wesley deprived the school system of $11,090 it would have received for hosting at least four tournaments from April to June 2025, according to an arrest affidavit from the Broward Schools Police Department. He was reportedly paid by another unnamed coach who organized the gym rental.

Meanwhile, Smith, 57, is accused of renting out the Boyd Anderson gym for three days of basketball games in April 2025 that would have earned the district $7,620, had they used the proper channels.

Wesley and Smith “benefited financially from these private agreements while exposing the district to severe liability and safety concerns,” police wrote.