The owner of a Texas company that sells plans to make untraceable 3-D printed guns has been released on bail after being arrested in Taiwan last week.
Cody Wilson, 30, posted his $150,000 bond in Houston, Texas, on Sunday within hours of being booked for having sex with a minor.
He was arrested in Taipei, Taiwan on Friday and had been extradited back to Texas to face the charges.
According to police, he met his 16-year-old victim on the website SugarDaddy.com and paid her $500 for sex in an Austin hotel room.
The girl told authorities about their encounter last week but, police say, someone tipped Wilson off and he fled.
Cody Wilson is pictured leaving jail in Houston on Sunday after posting a $150,000 bond for allegedly having sex with an underage girl and paying her $500 for it. He refused to answer journalists' questions and was met by a bodyguard who led him to a car
Cody Wilson, the owner of Defense Distributed, is pictured being led into county jail in Houston, Texas, on Sunday after landing back in the US from Taiwan. He was bailed out hours later
Wilson is shown being led through the airport in Taipei, Taiwan, on Friday with a mask and sunglasses covering his face before being extradited to the US to face charges for paying an underage girl for sex. He was bailed out of county jail in Houston, Texas, on Sunday within hours of being taken into custody
On Friday, he was taken into custody by local police and was extradited back to the US.
Wilson is the owner of the controversial company Defense Distributed, a 3D-gun printing company which has been at loggerheads with the US government in recent years.
According to an arrest affidavit, Wilson met thew girl in a coffee shop in Austin in late August.
They had already exchanged explicit pictures and messages through the website.
He then drove them to a hotel where they had sex. He paid her $500 for it then dropped her off a a Whataburger, according to prosecutors.
Not long after their alleged encounter, she told a counselor at the Center for Child Protection about it and they reported it to police.
KHOU reports that one of the girl's friends then got in touch with Wilson to tell him the police knew about it and were investigating it.
US authorities believe Wilson knew he was about to be arrested and fled to try to evade police
Cody Wilson, center rear, is seen at a police car in Taipei on Friday last week. Authorities in Taiwan arrested Wilson, who is wanted in the U.S. over underage sex accusations
Cody Wilson, with Defense Distributed, holds a 3D-printed gun called the Liberator at his shop, in Austin, Texas
They say he flew to Taipei to evade the authorities.
Surveillance footage from him in Taiwan shows him in the lobby of Your Hotel.
He was arrested on Friday by local police and, as he was paraded through the airport, wore a face mask.
Wilson was due to be sent from Houston to Austin to face the charges this week.
The terms of his bail agreement remain unclear. It is not known if he had to surrender his passport in order to get out.
Prosecutors said on Sunday they were happy to have him back in the US.
'We are glad that Cody is back in Texas again where we can work with him on his case.
' That's our focus right now,' Wilson's attorney, Samy Khalil, said in a statement Sunday night.
Wilson walking through a hotel lobby in Taipei just hours before authorities in Taiwan arrested him
Wilson, pictured at a hotel shop in Taiwan last week, has previously been at the center of a storm over his 3D-printed guns
Wilson is the owner of Austin-based Defense Distributed. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia had sued the Trump administration to dissolve a settlement it reached with the company over allowing it to disseminate its designs for making a 3D-printable gun.
The lawsuit by mostly Democratic state attorneys general argued that such weapons could be used by criminals or terrorists.
A federal court last month barred Wilson from posting the designs online for free. He then began selling them for any amount of money to U.S. customers through his website.
Wilson, a self-described 'crypto-anarchist,' has said 'governments should live in fear of their citizenry.'
Law enforcement officials worry the guns are easy to conceal and are untraceable since there's no requirement for the firearms to have serial numbers. Gun industry experts have said the printed guns are a modern method of legally assembling a firearm at home without serial numbers.
The 3D printed gun businessman was apprehended by police at a hotel on Guangzhou Street in Taipei's Wanhua District
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Main photo article The owner of a Texas company that sells plans to make untraceable 3-D printed guns has been released on bail after being arrested in Taiwan last week.
Cody Wilson, 30, posted his $150,000 bond in Houston, Texas, on Sunday within hours of being booked for having sex with a minor.
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