A state corrections employee is behind bars after allegedly traveling to Punxsutawney to meet someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl for sex.
The Punxsutawney Spirit says 36-year-old Robert K. Burkholder of Lewisberry, an SCI Camp Hill employee, was arrested Wednesday after arriving at a local playground where he had arranged to meet the supposed teen. The arrest followed an investigation involving the civilian group 814 Pred Hunters, which had been communicating with Burkholder through a decoy social media profile.
Burkholder was unable to post $100,000 bail and remains in Jefferson County Jail pending a preliminary hearing on October 22.
