LB Man Charged with Transporting Teenage Runaway for Sex
A Long Beach man has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging he traveled with a 14-year-old runaway from Arizona — whom he met in an internet forum — across state lines to his apartment, where he engaged in criminal sexual activity with her, officials announced Thursday. Trevon Nathaniel Langstaff, 32, was arrested at […] Trevon Nathaniel Langstaff, a 32-year-old Long Beach man, has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging he transported a 14-year old runaway from Arizona across state lines to his apartment in Long Beach, California, where he engaged in criminal sexual activity with the runaway. Langstaff allegedly met the runaway on an internet forum and had planned to hide her in a closet. If convicted, Langstaff faces up to life imprisonment.
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A Long Beach man has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging he traveled with a 14-year-old runaway from Arizona — whom he met in an internet forum — across state lines to his apartment, where he engaged in criminal sexual activity with her, officials announced Thursday.
Trevon Nathaniel Langstaff, 32, was arrested at his home early Wednesday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He is scheduled to make his initial appearance Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles federal court.
Langstaff is charged with transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, prosecutors said.
According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, law enforcement officials on Tuesday received a report of a missing 14-year-old girl, who ran away from a home in Arizona. Early Tuesday, the victim’s family discovered she was missing.
The teen’s family searched for the girl in the neighborhood and reached out to her friends and learned that the girl had recently said she was planning to run away, according to prosecutors.
The teen also told a friend that she had met a man who harbored runaways and currently had two other teenagers staying with him, and that he would give her a cellphone and a room in which to stay, the affidavit alleges.
The victim and Langstaff allegedly met on a Reddit internet forum about runaways. A phone record search revealed numerous contacts between the victim and Langstaff, according to the affidavit.
Early Wednesday morning, law enforcement officials visited Langstaff’s Long Beach apartment to locate and rescue the victim. The teen was found hidden in a closet at the apartment, the affidavit alleges.
The teen said she and Langstaff engaged in sexual contact after arriving at his apartment, according to prosecutors.
If convicted, Langstaff would face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison up to a maximum of life imprisonment, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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