Pressure Under The Friday Night Lights
NEW VIDEO! People say all kinds of crazy and stupid stuff online and they often hide behind fake names. In Raymondville, Texas we confront the guy picking on a high school kid, as if there isn’t enough PRESSURE UNDER THE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.
Pressure Under The Friday Night Lights
“It’s something that I love. It’s something that I love. Something that pushes me, somewhere I can express how I feel and let it all out,” Traeshaun Washington said.
Texas high school football.
Entire towns thrive on it. Lives are built around it.
Amid the powerhouse schools and the stadium wars, there is a culture that goes far beyond the gridiron.
It’s a raw challenge of young men growing up under the Friday night lights, and a ton of pressure.
The players become hometown heroes, household names, but in the world of social media, trouble also brews.
“You never really know what kid’s gonna get picked on next,” Coach Littleton said.
And that’s why we came to Raymondville, down in South Texas, to investigate the unfair social media attacks against a star of the Bearcats football team.
“You know, it’s not just me. It is a toll on my family. So, like, you know, it’s hard,” Traeshaun Washington said.
It was one of the biggest high school football games in the Rio Grande Valley last fall.
The Raymondville Bearcats and their archrivals, the Rio Hondo Bobcats.
“They were the big dogs of the division,” James Washington said.
The teams have a history of close games, but it’s Rio Hondo that consistently came out on top.
“From the moment I’ve stepped on campus here, it’s been, ‘Hey, we got to beat these guys,’ in the competitive spirit,” James Washington said.
Raymondville’s athletic director, Will Littleton, came into the season with one goal.
“I got here and wanted to do the best I could do to turn this football program around, and the athletic program around in general. And the best way I knew to do that was bring the best people in,” Coach Littleton said.
So he brought in this guy, James Washington, as a defensive coach.
“We go all the way back to fifth grade, all the way back to Cuero, Texas,” Coach Littleton said.
“I was his best friend, his dad was my coach back in Cuero High school. We grew up together,” James Washington said.
Raymondville didn’t just gain a new assistant football coach.
They gained a new stud player, James Washington’s son, Traeshaun, who transferred schools for the school year.
“He’s a ball player, and he’s played since he was four years old. He loves the game,” James Washington said.
So naturally, Traeshaun joined Raymondville’s football team.
He came in hot, quickly becoming the school’s star running back.
“He started off really, really hot. Like, his first four or five games were unbelievable,” Coach Littleton said.
And the Bearcats, 4–6 in 2024, had suddenly become a historic 10–0 powerhouse.
“He’s in the top 10 in rushing in the state of Texas,” Coach Littleton said.
“He competes. He’s competitive, man,” James Washington said.
There is Traeshaun, leading the team to a victory against the Rio Hondo Bobcats in a landslide, 48–21.
So not surprisingly, Traeshaun became the talk of the town, but not just for his football skills.
“They’re having the season of their life, you know, the only 10–0 season that Raymondville’s ever had, and they’re reading on the internet once a week that we’re doing something wrong,” Coach Littleton said.
Rumors were spreading online.
Allegations that Traeshaun was at Raymondville illegally, broke UIL rules, and that his dad was only hired so Traeshaun could play football for Raymondville.
“Yeah, week after week it started to pick up momentum and get bigger and bigger. You started to see it and hear it more,” James Washington said.
“I really didn’t pay any attention until it got around the school. All my teammates were asking me, ‘Was it true?’ Everybody from the school,” Traeshaun Washington said.
But it started to affect his performance on and off the field.
“It just made me feel like we weren’t nothing, like we don’t have a name. You know what I mean? Just felt like, I don’t know, like I said, I just felt like we were nobodies,” Traeshaun Washington said.
“So we tracked down the guy who did it, and we found a grown man, picking on a kid,” Wayne Dolcefino told the camera.
Josaphat Hoss Lozano is an ex-Raymondville employee, terminated eight years ago for assaulting a thirteen-year-old special needs student.
He’s been in other trouble, an ex-law enforcement officer who lost his badge and license for engaging in acts of official oppression.
And in January of 2025, while employed as a teacher at Progreso ISD, Lozano was arrested and charged with misdemeanor harassment.
And Lozano didn’t even put his own name on the social media attacks against Traeshaun.
He used a fake name, ‘Ozel Sonasno,’ and posted in at least five Facebook groups about Traeshaun, even including pictures of the kid.
If you look at his Facebook URL, you see that it is his name, Hoss Lozano, spelled backwards.
Lozano says he was simply asking questions, not making allegations.
But an investigation done by the Raymondville school superintendent claims Lozano actually impersonated as an investigator trying to dig up information on the Washington family, falsely claiming he works for “Global Security and Investigative Services.”
And in October, Lozano’s wife showed up at Coach Littleton’s office, questioning Traeshaun’s status as a student.
We figured this was a campaign to dirty up the other team, but Lozano says his interest had nothing to do with football.
“I’m not a fan of Rio Hondo football. My kids are all grown. I don’t follow football,” Josaphat Hoss Lozano said.
“But whatever his motive, the consequences of posting social media unproven rumors is a real problem,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“Are you sorry you did it?” Dolcefino asked.
“No, I’m not sorry. No, because my job as a freelance journalist is to look into corruption for different areas,” Josaphat Hoss Lozano said.
“Everybody seems to be a freelance journalist these days, but there’s a responsibility that comes with that. Before you put something on social media you should back it up, it shouldn’t be used to just air some alleged dirty laundry that you don’t even know if it’s true,” Dolcefino told the camera.
“No, that wasn’t a good idea, but still, it’s protected speech,” Josaphat Hoss Lozano said.
“You’re not gonna stop, are you?” Dolcefino asked.
“As long as I follow the law, it’s not something I need to stop doing,” Josaphat Hoss Lozano said.
In October of 2025, Lozano was arrested by Raymondville ISD police on harassment charges.
Willacy County court records show an emergency protection order was issued. Again, Lozano claims he is the victim.
“They arrest me, they file a no-trespassing notice, even though I was never even given a warning before that,” Josaphat Hoss Lozano said.
“Did you really need a warning not to post personal stuff about a kid on social media?” Dolcefino told the camera.
So this grown man claims he’s investigating a teenage boy online in the name of public concern.
“I received some calls from concerned citizens. This was a matter of public concern. They were concerned that Raymondville ISD may have hired the father of this student to work for the school district and may have given the father a job and a special title so they could bring their child to play in Raymondville from Cuero, Texas,” Josaphat Hoss Lozano said.
But this is why guys like Lozano are dangerous. He didn’t even know that James Washington and Will Littleton were best friends, since the fifth grade.
And he’s not offering an apology. Instead, Lozano claims he’s still investigating, sharing a copy of his complaint to the Texas Education Agency.
So Raymondville, beware. Hoss seems to really be on a revenge mission, and Traeshaun is just collateral damage.
“Would you do it again?” Dolcefino asked.
“Of course. I continue to do it, and I’ll continue to do it,” Josaphat Hoss Lozano said.
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