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Former Seattle Impact owner Dion Earl charged with sexual assault in Arizona

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A former owner of the defunct Seattle Impact indoor soccer team has been arrested in Arizona on charges that include sexual assault, kidnapping and sexual abuse.

Dion Earl, 45, who owned the Kent-based Impact during the 2014 season of the Major Arena Soccer League, is being held without bail pending a Nov. 7 preliminary hearing. He was arrested Saturday after two women, ages 21 and 18, and hired separately to baby-sit his children in Mesa, Ariz., complained to police that they had been held against their will and molested inside his home.

Earl faces three felony counts of sexual assault, kidnapping and sexual abuse as well as two misdemeanor counts of assault and sexual indecency.