Ohio Man Kidnapped 12-Year-Old North Carolina Girl He Met Online and Brought Her Home

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A 12-year-old North Carolina girl was found alive in Ohio after a crash on Highway 33 led deputies to a man now facing federal kidnapping and child exploitation charges. Investigators say the child had been reported missing earlier in April and was discovered in the front passenger seat of a vehicle driven by 45-year-old Virgil Larson when he crashed into a median near the Hocking–Athens county line.

Larson, of Bremen in Fairfield County, now faces five federal charges, including kidnapping a minor and sexua...