Federal authorities joined the search for a fugitive high school football coach being sought in connection to a child sex abuse image and solicitation probe in Virginia — and warn he may be armed.

The U.S. Marshals Service on Monday asked anyone with information about Travis Turner, 46, to call the USMS or Virginia State Police, the federal law enforcement agency said.

"VSP is still searching for Turner with the assistance of the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service," VSP spokesperson Robin Lawson said in statement on Monday.

Turner, coach of the undefeated Union High School Bears in Big Stone Gap, vanished on Nov. 20 in what was initially cast as a simple missing persons case.

But then state police announced last week they had obtained arrest warrants for Turner on suspicion of five

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