Man arrested in California faces Indiana charge

Howell told police he was on his way to a gay pride parade, though it isn’t clear what, if anything, he meant to do with the weapons.

On Tuesday, the Clark County, Indiana prosecutor’s office revealed they’ve charged Howell with having sex with an underage girl just days before his arrest in Santa Monica.

He said it’s a “logical conclusion to draw” that Howell traveled to California to flee the child molestation investigation. If convicted of the level 3 felony count of child molesting, Howell could face three to 16 years in the Indiana Department of Correction.

Afterward, Howell offered to drive the girl to the home of a family friend but first stopped at a forested area, where Howell molested her, the prosecutor says.

Once the accusation of molestation arose, Howell began threatening to kill himself, the girl’s family, and police if they tried to arrest him, according to court documents.

Police said Howell was found sitting in his auto when officers responded to a report of a man knocking on a resident’s door and window. The mother is not being identified to protect the identity of the alleged victim.

The girl stated that Howell took her to Clark State Forest in Henryville, where the two had intercourse. An ex-boyfriend, 17-year-old Zach Hambrick, said Howell wasn’t open about his sexuality.

Howell is now on probation in Clark County in connection to a 2015 intimidation charge.

She also said that her daughter and Howell spoke about getting married to each other after the girl got older.

The court documents state that Howell threatened to kill police officers too if they attempted to arrest him.

Howell sent a message to someone close to the victim, according to documents, saying Howell was a “sociopath with an automatic”. He remains in jail there on a $2 million bail. The chief said Howell had only told police that he was going to the event known as LA Pride, and he did not say what he meant to do there.

The explosive Shoc-Shot is used as a firing target and consists of two components that are mixed together before it is used.

” An Anderson Manufacturing AM-115.223-caliber rifle”. The rifle had a round in its chamber and additional rounds in a 30-round magazine attached to it. Another 30-round magazine was taped to the rifle.

Howell, who said he was on his way to L.A. Pride, also had a Taser, handcuffs, a buck knife, a canister of gasoline, a security badge and a black hood.

Deputy district attorney Sean Carney said gun enthusiasts don’t mix Shoc-Shot until it’s ready to be used, as federal regulations require, and the amount that Howell had “far exceeds any amount that would reasonably be used”.

Robert Boyd, Howell’s attorney in the Kentucky criminal case, told The Times on Monday that his client’s father and mother are struggling to get details about their son’s latest arrest. No arrests were made.

An ex-boyfriend said that Howell kept a collection of guns in his home. ‘He didn’t hunt. He just had them’.

During Howell’s arraignment Tuesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Keith Schwartz labeled him a potential danger to the community by driving a auto filled with explosives.

Michael Anthony Adams and Jill Disis report for The Indianapolis Star; Chris Woodyard, who reports for USA TODAY, reported from Los Angeles.