A Bourbon County man has been arrested in connection with a Lawrenceburg teenager who ran away on Sunday.
Kentucky State Police arrested Brian T. Jones, 19, of Paris, at 1 p.m. Tuesday. He’s charged with three counts of second-degree sexual abuse, a misdemeanor, and one count of kidnapping, a felony.
State police say he met with the 14-year-old on Sunday after she ran away. They originally met on MySpace, according to a news release from Post 12 in Frankfort.
They met face-to-face for the first time when the teen ran away on Sunday.
Trooper Ron Turley said at one point Jones had prevented her from leaving.
The sexual abuse charge was related to the 5-year age difference between Jones and the teen, Turley said.
Jones is lodged without bond at the Bourbon County Detention Center. Police searched his home on East Main Street in Bourbon County.
The teen was found at a Shell gas station in Bourbon County on Monday after police received an anonymous tip.
“She was wanting to go back home,” Trooper James Collins previously told The State Journal.