Navy pilot arrested for online relationship with underage girl, extortion

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - A Navy pilot stationed in Virginia Beach was charged in an investigation of an online relationship with an underage girl in Bedford County.

On Tuesday, 30-year-old Daniel Chase Harris -- a U.S. Naval pilot at Naval Air Station Oceana -- was arrested and charged with multiple counts of using an electronic communications device to facilitate certain offenses against children, and extortion, according to Mike Brown with the Bedford County Sheriff's Department.

The charges stem from an investigation the Sheriff's Department began in July of Harris' online communication with a Bedford County girl. Brown said Harris allegedly threatened the girl if she did not send him sexually explicit pictures of herself.