Man Arrested after Going to High School to Meet Girl

BAKER COUNTY, FL -- A man is in jail on several charges after deputies say he went to a high school to pick up a girl.

According to the Baker County Sheriff's Office, a woman called them saying friends of her daughter had called saying "Carlos" was coming up from Orlando to meet with the daughter last week.

When deputies arrived, the woman said Carlos was in a taxi in the front of the school. A deputy immediately went to the front and, with his car, was able to block the taxi, which was leaving the school.

The passenger said his name was Carlos, but he had no identification.

The girl's mother said she knew her daughter had been talking to Carlos for a few weeks, but when she found out he was in his 20s, she called him and said her daughter was only 17.

She said Carlos told her he was coming to get the daughter and was going to marry her.

The daughter told deputies she had been in touch via cell phone, the internet and text messaging with Carlos for several weeks, and that she had wired him money so he could come see her.

She also said she had given Carlos her Social Security number and date of birth so he could set up a cell phone on her mother's account.

She then told deputies that Carlos knew her age, and that she had sent multiple pictures to Carlos, several of which were sexual in nature.

Carlos, still in the taxi while deputies were talking to the woman and her daughter, then told deputies he was in the country illegally, so a deputy searched him and the taxi.

In addition to an Amtrak ticket from Orlando to Jacksonville, Carlos had two cell phones on him and one more in a bag. Tucked between a handle and seat frame in the taxi deputies found Carlos Sanchez's Florida identification card.

Upon checking his identity, deputies discovered Sanchez has seven active felony warrants our of Osceola County in central Florida.

For this case, Sanchez faces charges including contributing to the delinquency of a minor, resisting an officer obstruction by a disguised person, obscene communication use of a computer to seduce or solicit a child, and traveling to meet a minor to engage in unlawful sexual conduct.

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