Cops Save Lucasville Girl From Snapchat Predator
Officers rescued a Lucasville girl from an online sex predator on Monday. It all started when a concerned citizen contacted PPD to report they saw several children getting into a vehicle with two suspicious-looking adult men. The quick-thinking witness provided officers with a description of the vehicle and the tag number.
Around 3 am, two PPD officers stopped the vehicle in the 2400 block of Gallia and called in the Special Victims Unit to assist.
When Detective Jodi Conkel investigated, she discovered that the 13-year-old Lucasville girl found in the car had been having Snapchat conversations with one of the men. He drove from Mansfield, Ohio, to Lucasville to pick her up and then into Portsmouth, where they picked up two more children. Cops say his plan was to have sex with the children.
Investigators examined messages between the child and Robert Lamont Tubbs, Jr., 20, and discovered he’d exchanged inappropriate photographs with the child.
Officers arrested Tubbs and charged him with attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, disseminating matter harmful to a juvenile, importuning, and pandering obscenity involving a minor. He’s currently in the Scioto County Jail on a $25,500 bond.
Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman praised the cooperation between PPD, the Sheriff’s Office and the Scioto County Prosecutor’s Office, and the citizen who reported the suspicious incident.