The founder of a 3D-printed gun company is under investigation for an alleged sexual assault involving a minor.
ABC News reports a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Cody Wilson, the owner of Defense Distributed, for the alleged sexual assault of a minor younger than 17. Wilson reportedly connected with the alleged victim on a website called SugarDaddyMeet.com and that he’d used the screen name “Sanjuro.
The alleged victim, an unnamed girl younger than 17, told a counselor she’d had sex with Wilson Aug. 15, 2018, in an Austin hotel before he paid her $500, according to the arrest warrant affidavit filed Wednesday in Travis County District Court.
Police said they were present Aug. 27 when staff from the Center for Child Protection interviewed the alleged victim. The girl said she’d met the man on SugarDaddyMeet.com and that he’d used the screen name “Sanjuro,” according to police.
She said the two exchanged phone numbers and talked via iMessage, police said.
A search of the girl’s cellphone uncovered messages to SugarDaddyMeet.com as well as links to messages from Sanjuro, according to police. And, in one message, Sanjuro identified himself as Cody Wilson, police said.
“Victim said that ‘Sanjuro’ described himself to the victim as a ‘big deal,’” according to the affidavit.
Wilson and the girl met at a coffee shop Aug. 15 and left together in a black Ford Edge, police said. They said the vehicle was similar to a 2015 black Ford Edge registered with Wilson’s business, Defense Distributed.
Later, valet surveillance video from a hotel recorded Wilson and the girl’s getting out of the car, according to police.
Police said they reviewed hotel surveillance footage “showing the victim and Wilson exiting an elevator onto the seventh floor. … Hotel records showed that Wilson was the lone registered guest for room 718 on that date.”
Wilson sexually assaulted her and then “retrieved five $100.00 bills from a bag on the floor” and gave her the money, the girl told police, according to the affidavit.
Video obtained from the area surrounding the hotel showed the alleged victim shows them leaving the hotel Wilson according to the affidavit. Wilson has yet to be arrested.
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