Former NBA all-star and Toronto Raptor Alvin Robertson has been arrested in Arkansas on charges of sexual assault of a child and sex trafficking.
Robertson is accused of being one of seven people who kidnapped of a 14-year-old girl and forcing her into prostitution, police said.
Rbertson, who lives in San Antonio, Texas, was taken into custody Friday in Bentonville, Ark., said Bexar County sheriff's deputy Ino Badillo. The charges were contained in the arrest warrant.
Authorities allege the 47-year-old Robertson was part of a ring that kidnapped a girl girl from San Antonio last year and forced her to have sex with clients and to dance at a Corpus Christi strip club.
An investigation was launched after the girl escaped her alleged captors. Seven people have been charged, including Robertson's girlfriend.
The seventh overall pick in the 1984 draft, Robertson averaged 14 points over 10 seasons and was voted to four all-star games. He was named NBA's top defensive player in 1985-86.
He was best known for his play with the Spurs and Milwaukee Bucks, and after missing two seasons with a back injury, spent the final season of his career playing for the Raptors in Toronto's inaugural season in 1995.
In 1997, he was sentenced to one year in jail after pleading no-contest to a string of misdemeanours stemming from spats with an ex-girlfriend.
In 2002, he was sentenced to three years for violating a probation order that involved an accusation of rape by a girlfriend, who later recanted.
