WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, and Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), James C. Barnacle, Jr., announced today the arrest of LOUIS K. WEST III. WEST, a registered sex offender, is charged with communicating online with an individual he believed to be a 14-year-old girl and attempting to meet the individual to engage in sexual activities and record the encounter. WEST was taken into federal custody on Friday, March 27, 2026, presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy in White Plains federal court, an...