FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA — A U.S. Air Force member has been charged after he arranged for a 15-year-old girl — who was declared missing by her family — to travel to Delaware to meet him, police said.
The man sent the girl a message on Wednesday that said: "Tell me how bad you want to be kidnapped, baby," a criminal complaint states.
Dylan Drake Williams, 27, of Thornton, Co., was taken into custody as part of the investigation on Thursday, according to the complaint.
The Falls Township Police Department charged Williams with the unlawful contact with a minor/sexual offenses, corruption of a minor, and unlawful contact with a minor/obscene material.
Williams was arrested at Dover Air Force Base housing, police Lt. Chris Clark said. He is awaiting extradition to Bucks County.
Williams began communicating with the girl through Snapchat in June, police said.
The two exchanged sexually explicit messages on the social media platform, police said.
The girl later told Williams that her parents were checking her cellphone and that she needed to temporarily block him, according to the criminal complaint.
The conversations allegedly became sexual again in late July, and police said Williams acknowledged in a message that he knew the girl was underage, the complaint states.
The complaint states the two allegedly made plans to meet, with Williams telling the girl to pack a bag and sneak out of her Levittown home.
Falls Township Police said the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the US Marshal's Service, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office, Bucks County Detectives, the Pennsylvania State Police, the Dover City Police Department and the U.S. Airforce, Dover Airforce Base were involved in bringing the girl back to her family safely.
Falls Township Police said those law enforcement agencies are involved in an ongoing criminal investigation of Williams.
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