{"id":155209,"date":"2026-02-07T17:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155209\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:25:13","slug":"texas-man-attempted-to-kidnap-ohio-teen-he-met-playing-call-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155209\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man attempted to kidnap Ohio teen he met playing Call of Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">COLUMBUS, Ohio (<a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbc4i.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAConn%40wcmh.com%7C2187b7d771774539c88d08dde6da7806%7C9e5488e2e83844f6886cc7608242767e%7C0%7C0%7C638920548177328362%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ZU2ZWpF%2F6QSlrrdlEJcIbKe23LotvhC762s%2Bs%2BS21%2Bk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WCMH;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WCMH<\/a>) \u2014 A Texas man will spend the next 25 to 30 years in prison after he traveled from Texas to Ohio and had a sexual encounter with a teen before attempting to fly to Florida with the girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, a man from North Detroit, Texas, was arrested in February 2025 at John Glenn International Airport while attempting to take a 15-year-old girl to Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court documents state that Harrison Barton, 38, met the victim online about one month prior to his arrest while playing Call of Duty on a mobile device. Barton then took a Greyhound bus from Texas to Ohio to meet the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/ex-ohio-police-officer-fired-113000094.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ex-Ohio police officer, fired for allegedly soliciting a minor, now charged with rape;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Ex-Ohio police officer, fired for allegedly soliciting a minor, now charged with rape <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The teenager reportedly picked up Barton in Newcomerstown, Ohio, north of Cambridge, in Tuscarawas County. Barton told investigators that prior to arriving at the airport, he and the victim had a sexual encounter and that he took sexually explicit images of her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time of his arrest, Barton was also wanted on an outstanding parole warrant out of Texas, stemming from an online solicitation of a minor conviction, in which he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His sentence out of Ohio was a result of a plea agreement, which included a recommended sentence of at least 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc4i.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to NBC4 WCMH-TV.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to NBC4 WCMH-TV. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) \u2014 A Texas man will spend the next 25 to 30 years in prison after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35732,63945,64059,1688,64058,64057,27,29,28,34509],"class_list":{"0":"post-155209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-columbus","9":"tag-harrison-barton","10":"tag-john-glenn-international-airport","11":"tag-ohio","12":"tag-sexual-encounter","13":"tag-southern-district-of-ohio","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-texas-headlines","16":"tag-texas-news","17":"tag-u-s-district-court"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}