Larson runs a website that encourages raping children and sharing the images and photos,
according to the Fresno Sheriff’s Office. He had been grooming the 12-year-old girl for two months, meeting her through social media, the sheriff’s office said in a news release Saturday. The child was reported missing Monday.
Police believe he coerced the young girl into running away with him, and they said Larson flew from Virginia to Fresno to pick her up at about 2 a.m. They then used a ride share to go to the Fresno airport where Larson allegedly forced the girl to wear a wig and told her to act like she had a disability and couldn’t talk so she wouldn’t speak to anyone as they headed to Washington, D.C. on a flight with a layover in Denver.
Fresno detectives contacted law enforcement in Denver, and a Denver police officer assigned to the local FBI task force arrested Larson at DIA. Authorities also rescued the young girl and reunited her with her family Monday night, according to the sheriff’s office. She was not injured.