POLK COUNTY, TX (KTRE) -
Law
enforcement authorities in West Virginia arrested a 20-year-old former Polk
County resident earlier this week in connection to an Onalaska incident in
which the man and a group of minors allegedly trashed a house and later went
into one of the bedrooms and molested a 13-year-old girl.
Robert
Anthony Johnson, of Sod W. Virginia is currently being held in the Polk County
Jail on felony charges of indecency with a child by sexual contact and criminal
mischief between $1,500 and $20,000. Collectively, his bail has been set at
$22,500.
"He's the
one that said we would never catch him," Ron Gilbert, the chief of the Onalaska
Police Department said.
After
Johnson was arrested in West Virginia, he was extradited back to Polk County.
He was booked into the Polk County Jail at 5:51 p.m. Wednesday.
Gilbert said
the offenses occurred on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2011. Johnson, who was
then 18, and a group of minors allegedly broke into an Onalaska home and
"destroyed" it. They allegedly spray painted the walls, and kicked in the
television.
Later in
the investigation, one of the minors, a 13-year-old girl, told police officers
that Johnson had taken her into one of the home's bedrooms and "done things he
shouldn't have" with her, Gilbert said.
When the
Onalaska Police Department called Johnson to ask him to come in for
questioning, he allegedly told them that he was going to run, and that they
wouldn't ever catch him.
"We told
him, ‘We'll get you in good time; those warrants will follow you through
eternity,'" Gilbert said.
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Robert Anthony Johnson (Source: Polk County Jail)
