Ahem. FLORIDA MAN Andrew Drechsel, a champion on the show American Ninja Warrior, has today been arrested and charged with a litany of offenses related to sexual contact with a minor. Charges include seeking sex with a minor and inducing a minor to send sexually explicit pictures to him. Drechsel, 31, met the then 15 year-old girl at an event in 2014 where other fans and contestants of the American Ninja Warrior show were gathered. They stayed in touch and, in 2015, the pair first had sex in Drechsel's Connecticut gym, after which the girl told her mother, who confronted Drechsel. Drechsel did not deny the allegations, but merely claimed he did not know the girl's age.
The girl then filed a report in 2019 with the local police department alleging that the pair had engaged in sexual activity multiple times while she was between the ages of 15 to 17 years old, when he clearly would now have known she was a minor, and that she had sent him multiple illicit images.
He has decided to enter a not guilty plea, according to his lawyer.
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The girl then filed a report in 2019 with the local police department alleging that the pair had engaged in sexual activity multiple times while she was between the ages of 15 to 17 years old, when he clearly would now have known she was a minor, and that she had sent him multiple illicit images.
He has decided to enter a not guilty plea, according to his lawyer.

'American Ninja Warrior' champ Andrew Drechsel charged with child-sex crimes
Andrew Drechsel, who was crowned champion of "American Ninja Warrior" was arrested and federally charged "with seeking sex with a minor and inducing her to send him sexual explicit images," U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said in a statement.
