SAN ANTONIO – A missing 14-year-old girl from West Texas was located at a San Antonio motel, leading to the arrest of a California man on multiple felony charges, the Reeves County Sheriff’s Office told KSAT.
Reeves County deputies said they received a call on March 1 regarding a missing runaway girl from Pecos, a city located approximately 75 miles southwest of Odessa.
Deputies conducted a welfare check at the girl’s home and contacted her legal guardian, who told them the girl was picked up by an unknown male during the early hours of Feb. 24.
Authorities said this was initially reported to juvenile probation and later reported to Reeves County when she didn’t return.
The guardian provided deputies with the vehicle’s description and the girl’s phone number, adding that the girl had left with an individual she met online on Snapchat, according to RCSO.
Deputies pinged her phone at a Motel 6 near Six Flags Fiesta Texas on the Northwest Side. However, deputies said they were unable to find her.
Deputies filed a warrant to access the social media accounts of the male suspect, later identified as 36-year-old Trent Furry from California, RCSO said.
In a second search of the motel, deputies found Furry and the girl inside a room together, RCSO said.
He was arrested on charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child, injury to a child and aggravated kidnapping, deputies said. He has since been extradited to the Reeves County jail.
His three charges are all first-degree felonies and he’s being held on a combined bond of $300,000.
At this time, it’s unknown why Furry and the girl ended up in San Antonio.
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