Connor Smith — a former MTV star from 2015’s “Are You the One?” — has been arrested in Florida for allegedly attempting to hook up with an underage woman … bringing a year-long manhunt to an finish.
The 33-year-old was booked into custody Thursday afternoon, in accordance with an inmate log from Pinellas County, Florida — following reported sightings of him from the Sunshine State.
The ex-reality present contestant had been wanted in the state of Illinois since February 2023 … the place the Lake County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned he interacted with an undercover detective on-line for weeks, pondering the cop was a 15-year-old woman.
He allegedly despatched express photographs and movies of himself — and deliberate to satisfy up with the phantom child to interact in intercourse acts Feb. 9 … however when officers moved in to apprehend him, he fled in his pickup truck.
The next day, Lake County obtained a warrant for his arrest … on felony expenses of touring to satisfy a minor, and grooming and disseminating dangerous materials. A decide additionally signed off on a million-dollar bond if he had been to be captured and arrested.
In a earlier run-in with the regulation, Smith was arrested on an identical cost in 2021 — this after he allegedly raped a 16-year-old woman in Indiana.
The account the alleged sufferer gave police was brutal … and he ended up getting picked up in neighboring Chicago. Costs had been dropped in opposition to him in September 2022 when the sufferer stopped cooperating with regulation enforcement.