A Greene County Sheriff's Department SWAT team caught a 23-year-old Springfield man in bed with an underage girl and if it hadn't arrived late, it would have found two girls in bed with him.
Tyler Coons faces five counts of statutory rape, one count of statutory sodomy, three counts of enticement of a child less than 15 years ago, and one count of attempted enticement of a child less than 15 years old.
Coons' bond was originally set at $175,000 and later reduced to $100,000 at the request of his attorney Dee Wampler and over the objection of the prosecuting attorney. Coons is under house arrest and is not allowed to access any social media.
According to the probable cause statement, it was a father watching over his teen daughter's Facebook account that started the events that led to Coons' arrest.
On a Facebook message Coons had sent to the man's daughter, he said he was 14 years old. The father noticed messages from Coons asking if he and the girl could "meet up so they could make out."
Coons also asked the girl to bring a friend, so the two of them could make out and then the girl could make out with Coons. Seeing those messages, the father, pretending to be his daughter, arranged a meeting with Coons at Horace Mann Elementary School in Springfield.
When the father arrived, he met with a man who said his name was Frank and that he was 19. He denied being Tyler Coons. The father told "Frank" not to have any more contact with his daughter. When he returned home, he checked Coons' Facebook page and determined that it was Coons he had met at the playground.
After that, the father took the information to the Greene County Sheriff's Department. The daughter said that Coons had claimed to be 14 years old and had sent her messages including "inappropriate things about sex that really grossed me out.'
The Sheriff's Department obtained a search warrant to go through Coons' Facebook activity from January 1 through June 20. "When I received the requested records, it was over 8,000 pages long, most of which consisted of private messages sent between Coons and young girls that stated their ages between 11 and 17." Coons invariably told the girls he was younger than his actual age.
In several of the conversations, Coons and the girls talked about sexual enounters they already had with two of the girls worried about the possibility of becoming pregnant.
One girl, obviously aware that Coons was older noted that their sexual encounter was illegal.
Coons responded, "Yeah, I know but I mean you gotta admit, it was hot."
One girl wrote that her "life would be done for if I am pregnant. I'll have to tell my parents. They'll have to know who. You'll go to jail."
In another message to an underage girl who thought she might be pregnant, Coons wrote, "In our defense, that would be a cute f-----g kid. Maybe we just wanted to make everyone jealous." He told her he knew she would be getting the worst of it "unless your parents sent me to jail 'cause of it."
On one occasion, Coons slipped.
"On April 7, 2014, Coons sent EB a message that asked, 'Wouldn't it be weird to have sex with a 23-year-old?' EB responded, 'Well, aren't you like 19?' Coons replied, 'Really. I thought I told you I was 23."
On July 10, when the swat team arrived to arrest Coons, it found him in bed with an underage girl, who told a deputy that earlier she and another underage girl had performed oral sex on Coons.
Coons explained his sexual activity to the Sheriff's Department, according to the probable cause statement. "He stated he told each of these girl that he was younger than he actually was so they 'wouldn't think I was a pedophile.' "
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