Mr. Gray, who was charged with 14 counts of lewdness with a minor under the age of 14, was being held in the Clark County Detention Center without bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday. It was not immediately clear on Saturday whether he had a lawyer.
Mr. Gray continued to work as a gymnastics coach at a club in Temecula, Calif., while the SafeSport investigation was proceeding, The Orange County Register reported in 2018.
John C. Manly, a lawyer who represents about 200 gymnasts who are suing U.S.A. Gymnastics, including one of Mr. Gray’s former athletes, said Mr. Gray had coached at gyms in California, Nevada and Ohio throughout his career.
“This isn’t just any gymnastics coach,” Mr. Manly said, “this is somebody who coached national team athletes, world champion athletes and Olympic athletes.”
His clients are among those who sued U.S.A. Gymnastics for failing to protect them from Lawrence G. Nassar, a former doctor for the U.S.A. Gymnastics national team. In 2018, Mr. Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for multiple sex crimes.
A documentary, “Athlete A,” released last month on Netflix, chronicles the abuses.
After the documentary was released, the chief executive of U.S.A. Gymnastics, Li Li Leung, said in a statement that “within U.S.A. Gymnastics, under an entirely new leadership team, we have implemented stronger policies and preventive measures, launched multiple educational efforts, and made sweeping organizational, leadership and personnel changes.”
“Most importantly, we have prioritized changing the subculture within our community that allowed this to happen,” the statement continued. “We owe these survivors an incredible debt of gratitude for igniting these changes across the sport.”