Connor Smith was once on the MTV Program Are You The One? and is now wanted on a $1,000,000 warrant for soliciting sex from a minor. According to police reports Connor Smith was speaking to someone online who he believed was under the age of fifteen years old. Well the person he was really talking to was a undercover agent who reported that Connor Smith would send sexually explicit photos and videos of himself to he thought was a underage girl. Connor Smith also made plans to travel to see the girl for a sexual encounter.
When Connor Smith arrived in Las Vegas to meet the girl he was briefly taken into custody however he was able to escape. Authorities would issue a warrant for his arrest on charges of traveling to meet a minor, grooming and disseminating harmful material.
Now Connor Smith has been arrested in the past for sexually assaulting a sixteen year old girl. In that case out of Indiana Connor Smith was charged with sexual battery and rape as well as two counts of criminal confinement.
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An arrest warrant has been issued for a former MTV star accused of making arrangements to have sex with an underage girl, according to the Lake County sheriff’s office.
Connor N. Smith, 32, was actually communicating with a sheriff’s detective posing as a girl under the age of 15, the office said.
Smith appeared on MTV’s “Are You the One?” in 2015.
Smith sent the detective sexually explicit images and videos of himself, then made arrangements to meet for sex, the sheriff’s office said.
On Feb. 9, Smith drove to the arrangement meeting but fled when police moved in to arrest him, the office said. The next day, a warrant was issued for his arrest.
It charges him with traveling to meet a minor, grooming and disseminating harmful material, all felonies. A Lake County judge ordered him held on $1 million bond when arrested.
As of Tuesday, the sheriff’s office said Smith indicated he would surrender but was not in custody. He lives in Orland Park.
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