Officers arrested Wesley Lee Melton Jr., 22, Milford, Monday evening on child molesting charges. Acting on information given to the Milford Police Department, an Indiana State Trooper spoke with the alleged victim in summer 2013. She told the officer that in April of that year, before her 14th birthday, Melton went into her bedroom and started touching her inappropriately before engaging in sexual intercourse, according to a probable cause affidavit from the Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s Office dated July 25, 2013. According to the affidavit, Melton had been arrested in June 2013 and extradited to Oklahoma. He is currently being held in the Kosciusko County jail on a $20,000 bond.
