The Scioto County Grand Jury returned multiple indictments against the man law enforcement says lured a Lucasville child using the Snapchat app.
SCDN broke the story last month after concerned citizens and officers saved the girl. 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 booked him into the Scioto County Jail.
During its latest session, the Scioto County Grand Jury returned indictments for kidnapping, attempted unlawful sexual contact with a minor, importuning, disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, pandering obscenity, illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, and pandering obscenity involving a minor.
