Fomer Las Cruces coach indicted
A former Las Cruces middle school basketballcoach currently in jailhas been indicted.
Erik Khan, 33, is charged with second-degree criminal sexual contact with a minor after allegedly performing illegal physical exams.
Authorities said he performedphysical exams on at least three student-athletes at Picacho Middle School in 2007.
He allegedly posed as doctor on a day other physicians conducted physicals. A Las Cruces Police Department spokesman told ABC-7, in early March, some students referred to the coach as ‘Dr. Khan’.
Khan was arrested in May of 2012 on child pornography charges and awaits a federal trial.
Khan was also a volunteer coach at Mayfield High School.
