A man is facing solicitation and sexual exploitation charges after authorities say he picked up a girl from Iowa and took her over 900 miles away to North Carolina, according to local investigators.

John Michael Johnson, 25, is accused of picking up the girl in Fairfield, Iowa, about 113 miles southeast of Des Moines, and taking her over 900 miles away to Rockingham County, North Carolina, the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina said in a press release . Johnson is a North Carolina resident, per online court records.

He has been charged with felony second degree sexual exploitation of a minor and felony solicitation by computer, per the press release and court records obtained by USA TODAY. Court records show the girl is 15 years old, and Johnson allegedly solicited nu

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