GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) Pittsburgh Pirates closer Felipe Vazquez is being held in a Pennsylvania jail on multiple felony charges after telling investigators he attempted to have sex with an underage girl during a meeting at her house in 2017.
The charges are related to Vazquez’s alleged encounters with a girl starting in 2017, when she was 13. Vazquez is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Westmoreland County. He has been in the Allegheny County Jail since surrendering to authorities Tuesday on a felony warrant stemming from illicit electronic communication with the same girl.
A state trooper wrote in court papers that Vazquez began talking to the girl on social media before driving to her house in Westmoreland County, outside Pittsburgh.
In an interview with troopers last month, she said she got in Vazquez’s car, he removed her pants and tried to have sex with her. On Tuesday, troopers interviewed Vazquez at his residence and wrote that he admitted to driving to the girl’s house and trying to have sex with her. Troopers also said Vazquez admitted receiving explicit photos of the girl by cellphone and texting her explicit messages as recently as July.
Pennsylvania authorities began investigating the 28-year-old Vazquez in August after being contacted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The victim’s mother contacted Florida officials after learning of an alleged sexual relationship between Vazquez and a teenage girl living in Lee County, Florida.
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Associated Press writer Marc Levy in Harrisburg contributed to this report.
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