3-D printer gun activist Cody Wilson charged with sexual assault of teen, has fled the U.S.

Wilson, who gained notoriety for his efforts to promote the spread 3D printed guns, appears to be on the run.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/19/cody-wilson-3d-guns-sexual-assault-texas?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The Guardian, 09/18/2018
By Lois Beckett

A Texas gun rights activist whose quest to spread the availability of 3D printed guns sparked a legal battle, has been charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl and appears to have gone on the run.

A warrant was issued on Wednesday for the arrest of Cody Wilson. Texas police are now working with national and international law enforcement partners to locate the gun rights advocate, whose last known location was Taipei, Taiwan, an Austin police official said.

Wilson messaged an underaged girl through the website SugarDaddyMeet.com, had sex with her in an Austin, Texas, hotel on 15 August 2018, and gave her $500, according to an affidavit by an Austin police detective filed in Travis county district court on Wednesday.

Wilson, 30, identified himself to the young victim and told her that he was a “big deal”, according to the affidavit.
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Wilson has been charged with a second-degree felony that is punishable by two to 20 years in prison, Officer said.

While he is best known as a gun rights activist, Wilson also founded Hatreon, a now-defunct website that allowed neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other extremist figures to solicit crowdfunding online.
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Last year, in the wake of the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Wilson told Talking Points Memo that the site was a passion project and claimed he devoted $12,000 a month of his own money to support it.
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Wilson further described himself as “sympathetic” to the “alt-right”, though not rightwing himself, and said he founded Hatreon so the “alt-right” could “have a leg in this conversation and not be banished from the internet”.