{"id":283238,"date":"2026-09-10T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283238\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:20:09","slug":"pennsylvania-man-arrested-for-traveling-to-meet-a-minor-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283238\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man arrested for traveling to meet a minor | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Austin Stanchfield, 25\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa3047e631b3.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS\/WRSP) &#8211; On September 5, Austin Stanchfield, 24, of Pennsylvania was arrested by Illinois State Police after getting off a Greyhound bus.<\/p>\n<p>Stanchfield traveled from Pennsylvania to Springfield to meet with who he thought was a 15-year-old female for the purpose of sex.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with traveling to meet a minor, indecent solicitation of a child, and grooming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS\/WRSP) &#8211; On September 5, Austin Stanchfield, 24, of Pennsylvania was arrested by Illinois State Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1646,2675,49894,118138,24753,1856,14487,28,30,29,101994,95377],"class_list":["post-283238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-arrest","tag-child-abuse","tag-greyhound-bus","tag-grooming","tag-illinois","tag-law-enforcement","tag-minor","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sexual-offence","tag-solicitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283238","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=283238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}