(Providence, RI) -- A truck driver from Virginia is facing a federal charge of transporting a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity. The Department of Justice says 50-year-old David Romero Reyes was detained by Naval Station Newport Police earlier this month after a missing 15-year-old girl, also from that state, was discovered in the sleeping compartment of his tractor-trailer. The teen, who entered the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor last year, had been living with a relative of Reyes in Virginia before a family member reported an alleged sexual relationship between the two. She was reported missing last summer. Reyes was arraigned in federal court in Providence on Monday.
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