Man charged with kidnapping

TRENTON, MO — A man who used social media and phone conversations to encourage a teenage girl to leave home has been charged with several offenses, including kidnapping. Authorities initially invested a report of a runaway juvenile on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. During the subsequent investigation, officers determined that a 13-year-old Trenton female had been corresponding by phone and  through the computer with a 21-year-old man from the Chicago, IL, area. Fearing that the man had come to the Trenton area, Trenton police officers responded quickly to notify agencies in the surrounding area and asking for help in checking area gas stations and motels. The Chillicothe Police Department located the suspect and the juvenile in a Chillicothe motel. The juvenile was taken to a Kansas City area hospital for treatment; the suspect, Feliciano (Felix) Lopez Rivera, taken to the Grundy County Detention Center, where he is being held. In Grundy County, Rivera has been charged with child kidnapping, a Class A felony, and is accused of unlawfully removing the child from her residence without the consent of her parents or guardians. In addition, he is charged with enticement of a child, an unclassified felony, and is accused of persuading, soliciting, coaxing or enticing a minor under age 14 by suggesting on Facebook and during telephone conversations that the minor should run away from home with the defendant and she did so for the purpose of engaging in sexual conduct. In addition to these charges, Rivera is facing two charges in Livingston County of sexual offenses with a minor. Rivera, whom Trenton Police Chief Wright said is an illegal Mexican immigrant, is being held without bond and on a detainer from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.