JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A California man was sentenced to over 20 years in prison for child exploitation and attempting to take a missing 12-year-old girl on a bus from Jacksonville to California, according to the Department of Justice.
Court documents said on Nov. 2, 2023, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded to a Greyhound bus station to investigate a missing girl. Officers found the girl with Gyasi Wallace, 33 who bought two bus tickets to California for him and the girl.
He was arrested and the girl was reunited with her mother. Investigators searched Wallace’s electronic devices and found that he began talking to the girl on a social media site when she was 10-years-old…