CHICAGO (CBS) — A former MTV star from Orland Park, preferred for soliciting sexual intercourse from an undercover Lake County detective he assumed was a girl, was arrested Thursday in Florida following more than a calendar year on the run.
Connor Smith, 33, was wished on an lively arrest warrant for grooming, traveling to fulfill a slight, and disseminating unsafe materials, in accordance to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office environment. He was arrested by the FBI on Thursday in Clearwater, Florida.
Authorities experienced been hunting for Smith because February 2023.
At the time, Lake County Sheriff’s law enforcement explained he had been communicating with an undercover detective posing as a female beneath the age of 15.
Smith, who appeared on the MTV truth collection “Are You The One?” in 2015, allegedly despatched sexually specific photographs and films of himself before generating preparations to satisfy up with her for intercourse, law enforcement claimed.
On Feb. 9, 2023, he drove to meet up with her for sex, and when he arrived, detectives tried to arrest him, but he was capable to escape.
Immediately after his arrest in Florida, Smith was staying held at the Pinellas County Jail awaiting extradition to Illinois.
