Owner of 3D-printed gun firm is accused of sex with minor

DALLAS — The owner of a Texas company that is being sued by several states over its plan to disseminate blueprints for making untraceable 3D-printed guns had sex with an underage girl and paid her $500 afterward, police allege in an affidavit filed Wednesday.

Austin police officials said Cody Wilson was scheduled to fly back to the U.S. from Taipei, Taiwan, but he didn’t board the plane, and that law enforcement agencies are trying to locate him.

Police said it’s unclear why Wilson went to Taiwan, but he is known to travel extensively.

The girl accused Wilson of having sex with her at an Austin hotel on Aug. 15, Austin police Detective Shaun Donovan wrote in a request for a warrant to arrest Wilson on a sexual assault charge. The court filing doesn’t say how old the girl is, but Texas’ age of consent is 17.

According to the affidavit, Wilson met the girl through the website SugarDaddyMeet.com. The girl said she met Wilson in the parking lot of an Austin coffee shop before they drove to the hotel, where Wilson had sex with her and afterward gave her $500 in cash.

Video surveillance shows Wilson and the youth getting out of a vehicle at the hotel and then exiting an elevator together on the seventh floor, Donovan wrote. Later footage shows them returning to the elevator.

Hotel records revealed that Wilson registered the same room in which that the girl reported he had sex with her, the detective wrote.

Wilson is identified in the affidavit as owner of Defense Distributed.