TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Authorities in Taiwan have arrested the owner of a Texas company that sells plans to make untraceable 3-D printed guns who is wanted in the U.S. for paying an underage girl for sex, official media reported.
The Central News Agency said Taiwanese police found and arrested Cody Wilson in a hotel in Taipei on Friday evening.
The Taiwanese news agency said the island's immigration department would make arrangements for Wilson to return to the U.S. as soon as possible.
Police in Austin, Texas, had earlier reported that Wilson's last known location was Taipei.
Police Cmdr. Troy Officer said Wednesday that before Wilson flew to Taiwan, a friend of the 16-year-old girl had told him that police were investigating the accusation that he had sex with the youth.
Wilson is identified in a U.S. court filing as the owner of Austin-based Defence Distributed. After a federal court barred Wilson from posting the printable gun blueprints online for free last month, he announced he had begun selling them for any amount of money to U.S. customers through his website.
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia sued to stop an agreement that the government reached with Defence Distributed, arguing that the blueprints for how to print plastic guns could be obtained by felons or terrorists.
