A 26-year-old Decatur man was arrested Monday for allegedly using Facebook to threaten an underage girl with whom he had a sexual relationship, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Luis Hazel has been charged with statutory rape and making terroristic threats in the incident involving the 15-year-old girl he had met at a party, authorities said.
He was arrested Monday morning at his home on Oakvale Falls Drive, the GBI said. DeKalb County police assisted the GBI in making the arrest.
“They had a sexual relationship, and she was aware of his age and he was aware of hers,” GBI Special Agent Cynthia Whitehead told Channel 2.
The two communicated using Facebook during their alleged seven-month affair.
When the girl tried to break off their relationship, the man threatened her, saying he would have the girl raped, and that he would be waiting for her when she got off her school bus, authorities said. The girl, terrified, had her mother pick her up at school.
GBI spokesman John Bankhead said, “His communications rose to the level of a crime. They were definitely terroristic threats.”
Someone tipped off the GBI, and Whitehead, an expert in cyber crimes, looked at the Facebook messages the two had exchanged.
The GBI immediately moved to obtain an arrest warrant for Hazel to “get him off the street to protect the person he’s targeting,” Bankhead said. The suspect was taken to DeKalb County Jail.
Hazel used his phone to transmit the messages, authorities said.
Neither Channel 2 nor the AJC identifies the victims of sex crimes.
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