Monday, April 28, 2014
CRANBERRY, PA. — An East Palestine, Ohio, man is in the Butler County, Pa., prison in lieu of $150,000 bond after he allegedly went to Cranberry Township, Pa., to meet someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl, with whom he would have a sexual encounter.
Jacob Meadows, 21, of East North Avenue, is charged with unlawful contact with a minor, attempted involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, and criminal use of a communications facility, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office said.
Undercover agents from that office and Cranberry Township police recovered sexually explicit messages from the girl’s cellphone, then assumed her identity and exchanged about 500 text messages with Meadows in the five months before his arrest, the AG’s office said.
Meadows was arrested when he arrived Friday evening at a prearranged Cranberry Township location.