(openPR) - Lexington County deputies have tracked down a man wanted for not paying his child support--and they used an online dating service to help them find him.
Deputies say they arrested 31-year-old Brian Lee Todd Monday up in Fort Mill, where he was living. Investigators say he owes more than $5,000 in court-ordered child support.
Officers say they found him by setting up a date on an online service. Deputies say they learned last week that Todd logged onto the dating website. A female detective with the sheriff's department then logged onto the site and contacted him, claiming to be a woman from Fort Mill interested in dating Todd.
The two then set up a meeting; however, investigators say the first one didn't happen because Todd crashed his car on his way to see her. He made the second one, and the female officer and another detective arrested him after a short foot chase.
"We want deadbeat parents to understand that our agency's fugitive unit will use whatever legal means are necessary to find and arrest parents who refuse to pay court-ordered child support payments that their children need and deserve," says Lexington County Sheriff James Metts.
Todd is currently being held at the Lexington County Detention Center.
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