'Hear these guns blast through your house': Man threatened 10-year-old girl he met on TikTok, deputies say

A Texas antheral is down bars successful Arkansas aft threatening a insignificant helium met connected TikTok crossed authorities lines, instrumentality enforcement says.

Raymond Oscar Harlen, 20, stands accused of sexually grooming a child, intersexual indecency with a child, intersexual extortion, grooming a insignificant for aboriginal enactment trafficking, terroristic threatening successful the archetypal degree, and usage of a connection device.

The victim's parent alerted authorities to the alleged underlying issues connected May 18, according to the Miller County Sheriff's Office.

Specifically, the pistillate said her 10-year-old girl was receiving substance messages connected her idiosyncratic cellphone from an chartless man, according to an affidavit obtained by the Texarkana Gazette.

The communications betwixt the big and kid allegedly began implicit a week earlier, however, aft the antheral contacted the miss by commenting connected her TikTok posts, authorities say.

From there, the brace allegedly started to chat.

The girl, for her part, told the suspect she was "13 years old, yet helium continues to speech to her," according to the charging document.

Harlen was allegedly not shy astir revealing his ain details. Authorities accidental helium sent "her a picture" of his look "showing who helium is."

At 1 point, the kid and the big began playing a crippled of information oregon dare, according to instrumentality enforcement. This allegedly led to the messages betwixt the brace becoming sexually explicit. Then, Harlen sent a nonexplicit representation of himself to coerce the miss into sending him an explicit representation of herself, the sheriff's bureau said.

Eventually, the miss blocked the man's number, authorities said. Harlen past allegedly utilized different fig to substance the miss and inquire her to unblock the archetypal number, according to instrumentality enforcement.

The miss refused.

"Why bash you privation maine to unblock that number," she allegedly texted the 2nd number, "cause I'm not and don't telephone me."

The rejection seemingly prompted the antheral to nonstop a 12-second video of idiosyncratic holding a Glock-style handgun, the sheriff's bureau said.

In the video, respective different firearms look connected a table. Harlen besides allegedly sent a representation of idiosyncratic raising a mediate digit to the camera with a weapon disposable successful the background.

The affidavit elaborates connected the man's alleged connection to the girl:

The fishy past says, "Bet. You won't beryllium exeting maine buddy. I already recovered ya'll substance of clip erstwhile yall perceive these guns blast done your house."

Several substance connection exchanges followed, the sheriff's bureau said.

Later, Harlen offered to nonstop the unfortunate wealth during a treatment astir her age, according to instrumentality enforcement.

After instrumentality enforcement got involved, a detective traced the telephone numbers backmost to the defendant, according to the charging document. Investigators past looked up Harlen's driver's licence and determined the representation matched the photograph of his look the antheral allegedly sent the girl.

On June 17, authorities arrested the suspect successful Johnston County, Texas, and extradited him to Miller County, Arkansas. He is being detained successful the Miller County Detention Center connected $500,000 bail.