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Cody Wilson, founder of the 3-D printed gun company Defense Distributed and cryptocurrency advocate, has been charged with sexually assaulting a minor. According to an affidavit, Wilson was accused of assault against an unnamed minor he allegedly met through an online dating site.

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Wilson, who has butted heads with the U. The charges were first reported by news station KVUE. Though Wilson had booked a plane ticket back to the U. Wilson reportedly left the country after a friend of the victim told him that police were investigating. However, it is unclear if Wilson already planned to go to Taipei or if he left due to the news, Officer said. While Wilson is only being charged with sexual assault of a minor at present, more charges may be added later.

Cody Wilson is on the lam with $1 million in bitcoin

Cody Wilson fired the shot heard around the internet in with what is widely believed to be the first 3D-printed gun. Now the self-described "crypto-anarchist" is at the center of a fierce legal battle over whether Americans should be able to print guns that would be unregulated and untraceable. After a few days, the link was terminated by law enforcement officials.

Eight states and the District of Columbia sued Monday to block release of the blueprints, and a federal judge in Seattle on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order against Wilson and his nonprofit firm, Defense Distributed. Wilson began experimenting with 3D-printed guns while he was at University of Texas law school, after graduating in from University of Central Arkansas with a degree in English.

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He printed his first gun during exam week of his second year of law school, then dropped out to further pursue the project. In , when Wilson was just 24, he created Defense Distributed, a nonprofit defense technologies organization, and introduced his initiative to design and release files for 3D-printable guns.

Wilson said in a interview with an online radio broadcast that his idea for the project came from WikiLeaks. The plan was immediately controversial. Crowdfunding site Indiegogo kicked him off its platform.

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Statasys Inc. Days after Wilson first posted the 3D-printed gun blueprints online, the State Department demanded Wilson remove them. Wilson filed suit, claiming a violation of his freedom of speech.

He has said that opposition to his 3D guns shows shows how the government excessively exerts its power, limiting societal change and technological development. With accumulating legal fees, Wilson remains focused on the Ghost Gunner manufacturing company, now a lucrative business with 18 employees. In , Wilson created Hatreon, an online crowdfunding site supporting popular alt-right voices — including white supremacists Richard Spencer and Andrew Anglin -- who had been banned from the popular crowdfunding platform Patreon.

Some of the money that helped fund the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was raised through Hatreon.