A Littleton soccer coach and former professional player faces charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl he had coached.
Police said Stephen Martin Myers, 45, of Littleton “abducted” the girl and tried to hide her whereabouts from her parents. A police report didn’t say when the alleged abduction occurred.
Myers was arrested Friday. He is in the Jefferson County jail on suspicion of kidnapping and sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust. Bail is set at $250,000.
Myers teaches goalkeeping skills at the Littleton Soccer Club, a nonprofit league.
According to an online coaching biography, Myers is a Tulsa, Okla., native who played goalkeeper for the Tulsa Roughnecks professional team in 1984 and 1985 and for the Oklahoma City Warriors from 1985 to 1992.
He also has worked as a director of the School of Soccer Skills Camps and a goalkeeper trainer for Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Okla., and the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.
Myers has no criminal history other than a speeding ticket in Oklahoma in 1994.
Littleton police said the soccer club is cooperating with the investigation.
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com
