A former Sheppard Air Force Base airman from Denton has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in federal prison after authorities say he groomed and abducted a Colorado Springs teenager, then hid her in his dorm room on base.
Travis Robert Larson, 24, was sentenced yesterday in federal court after pleading guilty to enticement and sexual abuse of a minor. Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor handed down the life term in a case that centered on a 14-year-old Colorado Springs girl who was ultimately found on the Wichita Falls base after being taken to Texas, prosecutors say.
Judge hands down life sentence
Larson was indicted in August 2025 and pleaded guilty in November 2025 to one count of enticement of a minor and one count of sexual abuse of a minor, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. The office reports that Chief U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor imposed the life sentence yesterday, and that the filing lays out the court timeline and charges in detail.
How investigators say it unfolded…