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January 9, 2026Dustin Perry, Notorious Abuser Swimming Coach, Was a Municipal Government Employee, City of Pocatello Now Concedes
January 21, 2026PREVIOUSLY:
“Dustin Perry – Grotesque Swimming Coach Serial Abuser – Is Reported to be Back in Pocatello, Idaho. Police There Are Investigating,” January 8, https://concussioninc.net/?p=16502
by Irvin Muchnick
Earlier this month we renewed scrutiny of Dustin Perry, who most definitely earns top 5 status in the perversion rankings of abusive swimming coaches who have run roughshod thanks to the corrupt supervision of USA Swimming and the American youth sports system under the thumb of the Olympic Committee.
Perry, “the poor man’s Alex Pussieldi,” was extensively covered here in 2013-14, and he earned a sordid rundown in my book UNDERWATER: The Greed-Soaked Tale of Sexual Abuse in USA Swimming and Around the Globe. He has coached all over the U.S. and in Mexico, sometimes dragging young male swimmers with him from place to place. Most notably, there is the boy, now adult, whom I’ve called “Benton” – a mentally challenged son of a phenobarbital addict who broke away from his foster parents, and either is or claims to be Perry’s adopted son, and who, among other things, pleaded out a charge of circulating pornographic material to minors.
(By the way, there are also new developments in the Florida machinations of disgraced Brazilian coach and South American swimming big shot Alex Pussieldi himself. Stay tuned.)
A bio of Benton at the athletics website of Arizona State University, where he swam on a partial scholarship from 2013 to 2017, stated that “Father, Dustin Perry” coached him in Pocatello. (In 2015, the Arizona State swimming program hired as its head coach Bob Bowman, the famous coach of Michael Phelps. Bowman is now at the University of Texas.)
Perry’s last coaching stop, when he finally got banned in 2014, was Carson City, Nevada. Just before that, he was in Idaho for four years with the Pocatello Tigers team.
Concussion Inc. has information that he may have returned to Pocatello three years ago and, indeed, still be there.
Though the city government denies Perry is an employee, a Pocatello spokesperson is less forthcoming with regard to whether he ever was employed, and if so, when and in what capacity.
On Christmas Eve, I was contacted out of the blue by a Pocatello police detective, and we had an in-depth phone conversation. However, the detective, Eric Miller, has not responded in substance to my subsequent emails with comprehensive notes on Perry’s activities in Pocatello and elsewhere, including my offer to try to connect the police with local sources whose names were withheld in my reports.
On Sunday, Miller emailed me, “At this point, all I can say is that the matter is still under investigation.”
Perry’s rumored city employment is a key open question. According to a LinkedIn profile, someone named Dustin Perry is a “Human Resources Generalist” for the City of Pocatello.
On January 8, the city’s public information officer, Marlise Irby-Facer, told Concussion Inc. that the city did not employ anyone by the name of Dustin Perry. But Irby-Facer did not say Pocatello has never employed a Dustin Perry, or the particular one in question, and she has not responded to our request for clarification. (Of course, I’ll faithfully record any possible upcoming communication from the city.)
An important disclaimer is that Dustin Perry is a somewhat common name. Also, to the extent that online information is reliable, the LinkedIn entry could also be either an innocent or a calculated confusion between defrocked swimming coach Dustin Perry and some other Dustin Perry.
Clarification is crucial because of this online footprint of a complaint from two years ago:
“Why do we have a child preditor employed by the city? Dustin Perry should NOT be in a ******** where he will be exposed to young adults (new employee hires for Ross Park/life gaurds at the rec center, membership at the rec center, etc.). His new job title would require him to potentially deal with sexual harassment claims, or be exposed to vulnerable individuals coming to HR. This is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE!” [sic]
Local news outlets are missing in action. The Idaho State Journal did not respond to information forwarded to them. Neither did the newsroom at the KPVI television station. I’ll forward this update to them, as well.
Back in 2010, a State Journal article headlined “Preventing sexual assault and hazing in Pocatello” quoted Dustin Perry saying that his Tiger Aquatic Team was “working with Family Services Alliance” to include “into its coaching time” the anti-abuse principles of a program called CBIM: Changing Boys Into Men.
