police said in a statement<\/a>, and additional charges are pending.<\/p>\n\u201cPolice are actively searching for Turner,\u201d the department also said. \u201cSince his disappearance, VSP has utilized a number of assets, including search and rescue teams, drones and k9s, to assist in the search. VSP\u2019s main priority is locating Turner safely; he is now considered a fugitive.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Nov. 20, special agents from the Bureau of Criminal Investigation Wytheville Field Office were sent to Turner\u2019s home \u201cas part of the early stages of an investigation,\u201d Virginia State Police said in its statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was part of the investigation, and not to arrest him,\u201d the department added. \u201cWhile in transit, the agents were informed that Turner was no longer at the location.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turner was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt, sweatpants and glasses. He has coached Union since 2011. Two days after Turner\u2019s disappearance, the Bears improved to 12-0 with a victory in a regional semifinal game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWise County Public Schools is aware that law enforcement has filed charges against a staff member who has been on administrative leave,\u201d Mike Goforth, division superintendent for Wise County Public Schools, said in a statement emailed to The Times. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe individual remains on leave and is not permitted on school property or to have contact with students. The division will continue to cooperate with law enforcement as this process moves forward. Because this is an active legal matter involving personnel, the division cannot comment further.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Virginia high school football coach who went missing last week as his team prepared for a playoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41529,5744,26902,41524,348,48,52,51,734,47,50,49,1459,1089,41527,3025,427,41523,41526,41525,41528],"class_list":["post-70485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-additional-charge","tag-count","tag-disappearance","tag-division-superintendent","tag-investigation","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-part","tag-search","tag-special-agent","tag-statement","tag-team","tag-va-turner","tag-virginia-state-police","tag-vsp","tag-wise-county-public-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}