{"id":245218,"date":"2026-07-16T21:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245218\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:16:46","slug":"erie-man-faces-federal-child-sex-charge-ad-astra-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245218\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Man Faces Federal Child Sex Charge \u2013 Ad Astra Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/arressted+hand+cuffs-resized.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"arresstedhandcuffs.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" itemprop=\"url\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> An Erie man has been charged by criminal complaint for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity and committing that offense as a registered sex offender. Richard V. Mitchell, 63, appeared in US District Court in Kansas City, Missouri Monday on a two-count criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p> According to court documents filed by the US Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Mitchell requested a minor child be transported from Missouri to Erie. to engage in sexual activity with Mitchell, who is a registered sex offender in the State of Kansas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> The charges contained in this complaint are simply accusations, and not evidence of guilt. Evidence supporting the charges must be presented to a federal trial jury, whose duty is to determine guilt or innocence.<\/p>\n<p> This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Maureen A. Brackett and Kelly Collins. It was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of Project Safe Childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Erie man has been charged by criminal complaint for attempting to entice a minor to engage in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[454,5855,136,138,137,104980,24748,1399,1364],"class_list":["post-245218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-charge","tag-child","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-faces","tag-federal","tag-man","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}