CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A Texas fugitive wanted on child sex crime charges was arrested Tuesday in Chattanooga, police say.
Chattanooga Police say officers took 26-year-old Gavin Coats into custody without incident.
Coats is wanted in Fredericksburg, Texas, on a charge of Sexual Performance by a Child and three counts of Online Solicitation of a Minor, according to CPD.
Police did not say where in Chattanooga Coats was found or how investigators learned he was here.
Officers from CPD’s Special Victims Unit, Neighborhood Policing Bureau, Fugitive Unit and Narcotics/Vice Unit were involved in the arrest.
Coats was booked into the Hamilton County Jail, where police say he is awaiting extradition to Texas.