Police arrested a 35-year-old Wichita man on a number of charges out of Arkansas and Kentucky, and a missing teenager from Arkansas was found safe.
A Patrol North supervisor in Wichita was contacted early Wednesday by the White County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas, asking for help in finding a missing child. There was information that a 14-year-old girl left her home in Arkansas in early November and had not returned. White County investigators found that she was seen in a convenience store with a man and then left with him in a vehicle. The man was identified as being from Wichita.
Officers with the Exploited and Missing Child Unit and the Internet Crimes Against Children unit in Wichita found a home in the 1800 block of North Litchfield, where the suspect was believed to be. He was seen leaving the home and he was then arrested, and officers found the missing girl in a closet inside the home. They were taken to EMCU to be questioned, and it was discovered that further crimes occurred in Wichita.
The man, identified as David Roark, was booked into the jail and he has now been charged with kidnapping, child abuse, and solicitation of a child. Roark is also wanted on two warrants from Kentucky.
The girl has been reunited with her family.
