BENSALEM, PA — A New Jersey man wanted on child sex charges turned himself in to police after evading arrest for more than two months.
Jairo Zepeda-Herrera, 34, of East Windsor, New Jersey, surrendered at the Bensalem Township Police Department on March 4, 2026.
Police said Zepeda-Herrera initiated a conversation on a social media app on Nov. 29 with what he believed to be a 13-year-old girl.
He quickly expressed romantic and sexual interest in the child despite her age, according to police.
Zepeda-Herrera asked if she was a virgin, and when she stated that she was, he told her that he wanted to have sex with her and wanted her to lose her virginity with him, police said.
He then discussed how they would meet to have sex in his car and gave her a date of Dec. 30 while she was on Christmas break from middle school, according to police.
On Dec. 30, Zepeda-Herrera traveled from his home in East Windsor, New Jersey, and arrived at the 13-year-old’s home in Bensalem for a sexual encounter, police said.
Police were nearby, but prior to making contact with him, Zepeda-Herrera fled the scene.
Bensalem Police obtained an arrest warrant charging Zepeda-Herrera with attempted statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with minors, attempted indecent assault, corruption of minors and related offenses.
No children were in danger during the investigation, police said.
Attempts to serve the arrest warrant were unsuccessful until members of the U.S. Marshals Service spoke to his family at his listed residence on March 3, 2026, about the active warrant.
Zepeda-Herrera was arraigned by District Justice Joseph Falcone and remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10% of $3,000,000 bail.
Bensalem Police said Zepeda-Herrera is from Ecuador and entered the United States illegally.
