Police: Nevada man stalked, sent nude photos to West Mifflin teen

A Nevada man accused of stalking a 15-year-old West Mifflin girl on social media for more than year was arrested Monday after police say he traveled from Las Vegas in an attempt to have sex with her.

Police said Renad Bautista, 30, was “constantly contacting” the girl starting in August 2018 when she was 13, commenting about having sex with her and asking her to respond to nude photos he sent of himself with her own photos, according to a criminal complaint.

Police said the girl’s parents asked Bautista to stop contacting her, but he did not stop. Continuing to reach out, he told the girl he found her street address through social media and knew what her house looked like, adding that he wanted to drive to Pittsburgh to meet her.

The girl’s father again reached out, informing Bautista of her age and telling him to stop communicating with her. Bautista again continued and sent a letter and $5 bill to her home this spring, police said.

Throughout that time, Bautista told police, the girl would block his social media accounts, but that he would open new ones to continue contacting her.

In August 2019, officers with the West Mifflin Police Department and FBI Pittsburgh Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force took over the girl’s social media account, posing as the 14-year-old. Police said Bautista continued contacting the account, believing it was the girl, saying that he knew her age and that he was going to come to Pittsburgh so they could be married and live together in an apartment.

When the agent controlling the account would not immediately respond, Bautista would say he was going to kill her.

According to officials, Bautista arrived in the Pittsburgh area Sunday after leaving Nevada last week. Police responded Monday to Addison Avenue for reports of a suspicious vehicle with a Nevada license plate. When officers approached the black Cadillac, which they discovered was stolen, they found a male who said he was here to visit a female friend.

He then named the girl, who is now 15.

Bautista is charged with three counts each of unlawful contact with a minor and criminal use of a communication device and single counts of criminal solicitation, receiving stolen property, terroristic threats, stalking and possessing marijuana.

His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 19. He is being held at the Allegheny County Jail on $20,000 bond.