A Lee County soccer coach arrested Monday on a sexual battery charge carried on a long-term relationship with one of his players and sent suggestive text messages to another, according to documents in the case.
Adrian Holland, 22, until last week the director of coaching and player development for the Greater Fort Myers Soccer Club, Inc., was arrested on the Lee warrant in Broward County on Monday. Lee deputies booked him into a Fort Myers jail on Thursday afternoon.
He faces a charge of lewd and lascivious battery of a juvenile between the ages of 12 and 16, a second degree felony that carries a maximum 15 years in prison.
Robert Peltram, president of the Soccer Club, which runs the Lee County Strikers team program, said he was unaware of the alleged sexual relationship Holland had with a player.
“It’s getting worse and worse,” he remarked.
Last week, the club’s board of directors fired Holland after a Sheriff’s Office report revealed one of his female players complained about receiving inappropriate text messages from him. Peltram said directors made their decision after confirming the messages came from Holland’s phone number.
