Overview
- Ogden police issued an AMBER Alert on Wednesday after the 13-year-old was reported missing from her home early that morning.
- Investigators tracked a phone ping near Rock Springs, Wyoming, and a license-plate reader hit in Fort Collins, leading officers to locate the girl north of the city.
- Christopher Thomas Wiggins, a family acquaintance and registered sex offender barred from contacting the child, was taken into custody in Colorado.
- An arrest-warrant affidavit cites allegations of an explicit photo sent to the girl, a shooting at her mother days earlier, and a note professing extreme devotion.
- Court records list a 2011 conviction for unlawful sexual activity with a minor, and the new charge is supported by an arrest warrant to begin extradition.