SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AP) — An Air Force sergeant who disappeared while awaiting a child sex assault court-martial trial at Scott Air Force Base has been arrested in Nevada.

The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations says 35-year-old Technical Sergeant David Lawrence Helm was arrested Monday night after an interstate traffic stop in Reno.

Helm is accused of sexually assaulting a girl between the ages of 12 and 16 at several locations in 2013 and 2014, including the southwestern Illinois air base and LaFollette and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. An adult female was allegedly assaulted at Scott and in Dayton, Ohio.

Helm had been scheduled to appear in a military court Monday. The nine violations Helm faces include charges of sexual assault and taking an indecent photograph of the adult woman without her consent.

 

 

 

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