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, Nevada.
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. A second female victim 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 a victim without her consent.