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WILKES-BARRE — A Luzerne County jury deliberated less than one hour Friday before convicting a former Plymouth man of sexually assaulting two girls in Pringle and Plymouth.

Dylan Thomas Williams, 22, was arrested by Kingston police and Luzerne County detectives in October 2019 when two girls, then ages 15 and 13, came forward claiming he sexually assaulted them.

Both girls were questioned by a forensic interviewer at the Luzerne County Children’s Advocacy Center in Wilkes-Barre.

The elder teenager said when she lived in Pringle, Williams touched her chest as she watched television. She pushed him away and Williams pledged not to do it again. Several days after the first assault, Williams sexually assaulted her in a bedroom, the girl said.

After the girl moved to Plymouth, she told detectives Williams raped her as she slept on a couch and again when he attempted to get her to smoke marijuana, court records say.

The 13-year-old girl told detectives Williams put his hand up her shirt and grabbed her chest, and sent her an online message saying the next time she changed clothes, he wanted to be there.

Court records say Williams bragged about raping the elder teenager to friends.

Williams’ trial began Wednesday before President Judge Michael T. Vough and testimony concluded Thursday.

Deputy State Attorney General Rebecca Anne Elo, who prosecuted, and Williams’ attorney, Frank McCabe gave closing arguments Friday morning before the jury began deliberating at 10:35 a.m.

Less than one hour later, about 11:25 a.m., the jury reached a verdict convicting Williams on charges of rape, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, corruption of minors and two counts of statutory sexual assault involving the elder teenager.

Williams was also convicted on two counts of corruption of minors and a single count of indecent assault of the younger girl.

After the verdicts were announced, Vough revoked Williams’ bail and he was jailed at the county correctional facility.

Vough ordered the Pennsylvania Sexual Offender Assessment Board to evaluate Williams to determine if he is a violent sexual offender.

Williams, who relocated to Barton, N.Y. after his October 2019 arrest, is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 11.

Elo has notified Vough she will seek the mandatory sentence for Williams.

NY man convicted of sexually assaulting two girls in Plymouth, Pringle