FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A man was arrested in Maryland after he was accused of trafficking a teenage girl across state lines into Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania State Police in Chambersburg said that 27-year-old Jeremy Spikes Jr. from Hagerstown, Maryland, allegedly took the 14-year-old from her Maryland home and drove her across state lines to an unknown hotel in Franklin County, where officials said she was forcibly raped.<\/p>\n
He is facing the following offenses:<\/p>\n
Trafficking in individualsRape-forcible compulsionAggravated indecent assaultInterference with custody of childrenUnlawful contact with a minorCorruption of minors<\/p>\n
On Monday at 12:45 p.m., Chambersburg police received a call from the Hagerstown Police Department that they had located the missing girl. <\/p>\n
After an extensive investigation, with interviews, neighborhood canvassing and automatic license plate readers, officials said they were able to locate Spikes and the victim.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday at 12:30 p.m., Spikes was taken into custody by Maryland police and is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A man was arrested in Maryland after he was accused of trafficking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-260360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260360","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=260360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}