BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – A multi-statewide agency search led to the finding of a missing East Baton Rouge Parish teenager in a basement in Pennsylvania.
At least two people are facing charges in connection with the disappearance of the teen.
Ki-Shawn Crumity, 26, has a list of charges, including trafficking in individuals, statutory sexual assault, and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.
According to the U.S. Marshals Office, Ronald Smith, 62, of New Orleans, was arrested in Columbus, Ga., for simple kidnapping and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.
WAFB has not yet received Smith’s mugshot.
The teen girl was first reported missing in October.
Officials received information from the State of Louisiana’s Attorney General’s Office Cyber Crime Unit, revealing the missing teen may have had online contact with an unknown adult male.
Officials say the teen boarded a Greyhound bus in Baton Rouge earlier in the week.
It was then reported that the teen was allegedly traveling on a bus from Columbus, GA., to Pittsburgh, PA.
On Thursday, several agencies worked together to locate the missing teen in the basement of a home in Pennsylvania.
Investigators say they found a woman and a man, both from the Washington, DC area, in the basement with the teen.
More arrests are pending.
This is an ongoing investigation.
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