LITH juvenile pimping suspect facing kidnapping charges in Kansas

A Lake in the Hills man awaiting trial on charges he put a 14-year-old girl to work as a prostitute was back in jail Thursday after his arrest on claims he kidnapped the teenager from Kansas.

Donald R. Jones, 52, of the 3500 block of Sonoma Circle, was arrested at his home Tuesday on a Sedgwick County, Kan., warrant accusing him of aggravated trafficking and kidnapping.

He was taken to the McHenry County jail, where he remains on a $500,000 bond awaiting possible extradition.

A spokeswoman for the Sedgwick County District Attorney said the county sheriff will be making arrangements to return Jones to Kansas. She declined to give details on the accusations.

Jones' attorney, Daniel Taylor, was not immediately available for comment Thursday.

Lake in the Hills police first arrested Jones and his roommate, Antwanette R. Atkins, 42, on Jan. 21 after an investigation into claims they sold the teenager for sex.

Authorities said the investigation revealed that after first contacting the girl over the Internet, Jones drove to Wichita, Kan., on Dec. 30 to get the girl and brought her back to Lake in the Hills.

Once in Illinois, authorities said, Jones advertised the girl online as an escort and on Dec. 31 Atkins drove her to two suburban locations where she had sex for money.

Before Tuesday's arrest, Jones, charged in McHenry County with juvenile pimping and involuntary servitude of a minor, was free on a $17,000 bond. Atkins remains in custody at the county jail, unable to post a $20,000 bond set on the same charges.

A second woman charged with the same offenses, Kari D. Knox, 36, of the same Lake in the Hills address, recently was transferred to the McHenry County jail from a state prison, where she was serving time on an unrelated prostitution charge.