WEST JORDAN, UT — A 28-year-old man is accused of taking a 15-year-old girl across state lines after meeting her online, prompting felony charges in Salt Lake County. Police say Danilo Miguel Ajqui Suy responded to the girl’s social media post, began messaging her and later drove from California to Utah to pick her up.
According to court documents, the encounter escalated over about a week before Suy allegedly drove the teenager from West Jordan into Nevada. Prosecutors say the case includes a first-degree felony charge of criminal solicitation of child kidnapping, along with two third-degree felony counts tied to harmful material sent to a minor.
Court documents say the contact began on social media
Investigators say Suy first reached out after seeing the teen’s post on social media. The two then began communicating online, and police say he continued that contact in the days that followed.
Court documents say Suy allegedly sent sexually explicit GIFs to the girl before he arrived in Utah. Authorities have not said in the documents released publicly whether any other people were involved or whether the pair had met in person before the trip from California.
The allegations focus on the online contact leading to a physical meeting and the drive out of Utah. Police say that sequence of events is what brought the case into felony territory.
Police say he drove from California to Utah to meet her
Authorities allege Suy traveled from California to Utah to pick up the girl and take her to get food. The trip, according to police, happened after the online conversations and explicit messages that were already under way.
The teenager left her home with Suy without permission from her parents, police said. What happened next, investigators say, was a drive of roughly an hour and a half before the pair crossed into Nevada.
Police have not said where in California Suy was living or why he was in the state before the trip. They also have not publicly described any prior relationship between Suy and the girl beyond the social media contact.
Father tracked his daughter to Nevada
The girl’s father told police he used location tracking to find her and saw that she was in Nevada. He then drove to the area where she had been taken and approached the vehicle, where he found his daughter and Suy inside.
That discovery ended the trip, according to the account described by investigators. Police have not said whether the girl was physically harmed, but the case records say the travel happened without her parents’ permission.
The father’s actions were central to locating the teen quickly after she left home. His location check appears to have provided the first confirmation that she had been taken out of Utah.
Felony charges filed in Salt Lake County
Suy was arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail, police said. He is facing a first-degree felony charge of criminal solicitation of child kidnapping.
He is also charged with two counts of third-degree felony criminal solicitation, distribution of material harmful to a minor. Those charges are tied to the explicit GIFs investigators say he sent before the trip.
Court records do not include a plea or information about a first appearance in the case. The charges remain allegations unless and until they are proven in court.
Online contact and child safety concerns in the case
The case adds to a broader warning for parents and teens about adults who initiate contact through social media and then move the interaction offline. In this instance, police say the relationship began with a post online and developed into a cross-state drive.
Authorities say the teen was only 15, which is why the allegations include a child-kidnapping-related felony. The filing also connects the online contact to the alleged distribution of sexually explicit material.
Law enforcement has not released additional details about the platform used, the timing of the messages, or whether any digital evidence remains part of the case file. For now, the public record centers on the alleged drive from Utah to Nevada and the charges that followed.