Chip" Williams Jr. arrested on sex offense charges

Topics:  Richard Williams Jr.

Alfred Johnson
February 9, 2006

Chip" Williams Jr., a Nascar publicist was arrested and charged with statutory rape and soliciting a minor for sex.

Richard Norman Williams Jr. was arrested in the parking lot of a Guilford County church, he had arranged to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl. Williams Jr.’s firm handles media and public relations for Nascar drivers Kyle Petty, Bobby Labonte, Derrike Cope and John Andretti, among others.

The investigators targeted Norman Williams after receiving information about a sexual relationship between Williams and a now-15-year-old girl from Guilford County. Williams is charged with first-degree sex offense and he was being held at the Guilford County Jail on a bond of $1 million. "I think there's a lot more involvement than from those things we got from the Internet," Barnes said. "Basically, we feel he has probably been involved with more than one person."