Mark Steven Mauer, 54, head football coach at Hill-Murray School, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Maplewood, Minnesota, "arrested in a prostitution sting" Mugshots.com: Mark Mauer Pioneer Press: Hill-Murray football coach Mark Mauer caught in Fridley prostitution sting (Feb 22 2013) Hill-Murray School's head football coach was arrested in a prostitution sting in Fridley this week. Mark Steven Mauer, 54, was among 19 men arrested and charged with misdemeanor soliciting prostitution, police said. ...According to the police report, Mauer arrived at the hotel about 7:30 p.m. and met with a female undercover officer. Mauer verbally agreed to pay the woman $100 for a half-hour of "full service," the report said. Mauer then told the woman he left his money in the car and had to go get it, police said. He was arrested when he left the room. When questioned, Mauer reportedly told police he was just "messing around" and didn't intend to return to the room. According to the report, Mauer said "he has done this a couple times in the past, where he calls women and then leaves without doing anything." Police said he had with him $100 and a bottle of unmarked pills that Mauer said were Viagra, a prescription drug used to treat impotence. Tags:
KSTP: Hill-Murray Football Coach Arrested in Fridley Prostitution Sting (Feb 22 2013) According to a police report, one of the men arrested is 54-year-old Mark Mauer of Woodbury, who is the Hill-Murray School head varsity football coach ... According to the police report, Mark Mauer arrived at the hotel around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, and allegedly agreed to pay the undercover officer $100 for a half hour of “full service.” He admitted to finding the prostitution ad on Backpage.com.
Star Tribune: Hill-Murray football coach Mauer arrested in Fridley prostitution sting (Feb 23 2013) Mark Mauer, a member of a St. Paul clan well-known for its athletic success — Twins catcher Joe Mauer is his cousin — was named coach at Hill-Murray last year. Hill-Murray High School football coach Mark Mauer was arrested Tuesday evening by Fridley police during a prostitution sting.
City Pages: Mark Mauer, Hill-Murray football coach and Joe's cousin, arrested for soliciting prostitution [UPDATE] (Feb 26 2013) Mark Mauer, the Hill-Murray High School head football coach and a cousin of Joe Mauer, was arrested in Fridley this week for soliciting prostitution ... As Fridley Patch reports, Mauer's Tuesday arrest was part of a one-stop-shopping prostitution sting by the Fridley Police Department.
Star Tribune: Mark Mauer quits as Hill-Murray's football coach after prostitution arrest (Feb 26 2013) Hill-Murray High School’s head football coach, a member of the Mauer family, resigned Tuesday from his duties with the Catholic school in the wake his arrest in Fridley during a prostitution sting. Mark Mauer, 54, of Woodbury, “resigned this afternoon” as coach and as a major-gifts officer for the Maplewood school, said Hill-Murray spokeswoman Sheri Lunn.
Pioneer Press: Hill-Murray football coach resigns after solicitation charge (Feb 26 2013) Head football coach Mark Mauer, who was charged with soliciting prostitution last week, has resigned from Hill-Murray School, school officials confirmed ... School officials said in an email Tuesday, Feb. 26, that Mauer "has resigned his positions of Major Gift Officer and of head football coach at Hill-Murray School." CBS Local Minnesota: Hill-Murray Coach Resigns In Wake Of Prostitution Arrest (Feb 26 2013) My Fox Twin Cities: Hill-Murray football coach resigns after prostitution arrest (Feb 26 2013) KSTP: Hill-Murray Coach Resigns Amid Prostitution Scandal (Feb 26 2013) NBC News: Hill Murray coach cited in prostitution ring resigns (Feb 27 2013)
Star Tribune: Hill-Murray football coach Mauer resigns (Feb 27 2013) Mauer served briefly on the St. Paul City Council in 1997, getting named after longtime friend and Council Member Dino Guerin resigned to join the Ramsey County Board. A month later, he was offered a job as an assistant coach at North Dakota State. Mauer was a star quarterback at Harding High School in St. Paul and played football and baseball at the Nebraska. He has also worked as an assistant football coach at Wisconsin and New Mexico State.
NY Daily News: Disgraced high school football coach resigns after police catch him in a prostitution sting (Feb 26 2013) A Minnesota high school football coach has resigned after he allegedly agreed to pay a police officer $100 for a half hour of “full service” during a prostitution sting. 54-year-old Mark Mauer was one of 23 people arrested in the wake of the two-day operation at the Liveinn Hotel in Fridley, Minn, KARE-11 reports. Mauer, the head football coach at Hill-Murray Catholic high school, was charged with soliciting prostitution ... According to police, Mauer arrived at the hotel around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. He was responding to a fake advertisement that police had posted in the escort section of Backpage.com. Mauer agreed to pay an undercover officer for sex. He then began to touch and rub her, KARE-11 reports. When he left the room to get the money, police took him into custody. He was later released from jail. The disgraced coach told cops that he was just “messing around” and that it was “stupid” to come down to the hotel. He said that he wasn’t going to come back after he left the room, the Star Tribune reports. Police said that Mauer had come to the hotel armed with Viagra pills. He has been barred from the hotel for a year, according to CBS Minnesota.
This is not Hill-Murray's first hooker scandal. Their president, Joseph Peschges, was busted 2.5 years ago in a sex sting operation ... Joseph Peschges City Pages: Hill-Murray School President Joseph Peschges arrested in sex sting (July 16 2010) Grabbing an undercover police officer's crotch can only lead to bad things. For Joseph Peschges, president of the Catholic Hill-Murray School in Maplewood, it meant getting arrested yesterday in a St. Paul park ...
