A Long Beach man was sentenced Wednesday to eight years behind bars for traveling with a 14-year-old runaway — whom he met in an internet forum — across state lines to his apartment, where he engaged in sexual activity with her.

Trevon Langstaff, 34, pleaded guilty last year in Los Angeles federal court to one count of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

In late March 2024, Langstaff drove from his Long Beach home to Peoria, Arizona, to pick up the underage girl, according to his plea agreement. Langstaff knew the girl was 14 and told her to pretend to be 18 years old, prosecutors said.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the defendant brought the girl from Arizona to his home in Long Beach. Prosecutors say that on his phone, law enforcement found an image th

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