BIG STONE GAP, Va. — A Virginia highschool soccer coach who disappeared days earlier than his undefeated workforce’s playoff recreation is being sought on costs of possessing baby sexual abuse materials and utilizing a pc to solicit a minor, Virginia State Police stated Tuesday.
Police stated Travis L. Turner, 46, of Appalachia, Virginia, is needed on warrants obtained Monday for 5 counts of every cost, including that extra costs are pending as an investigation continues. They didn’t share particulars about what prompted the costs.
Turner has been lacking since Thursday, when state police particular brokers from a Bureau of Felony Investigation workplace had been despatched to his dwelling, to not arrest him however to speak to him as a part of an investigation. As officers traveled there, they had been notified that he was gone, police stated. The next search close by has included drones, canine and rescue groups, police stated.
A message in search of remark was left Tuesday at a telephone quantity related to Turner. The court docket didn’t but have a case docket that will record any lawyer for him.
Turner is the soccer coach at Union Excessive College in southwest Virginia’s Clever County. Union has strung collectively 12 straight wins to stay undefeated this season and advance to a regional remaining this Saturday.
Requested about Turner, division superintendent Mike Goforth stated in an emailed assertion that Clever County Public Colleges is conscious of costs filed “in opposition to a employees member who has been on administrative depart” and that the particular person is not allowed to be on college property or have contact with college students. He did not disclose when or why that depart started, and stated college officers would not remark additional as a result of it’s an ongoing authorized matter involving personnel.