Richard Hoyt Crawford Jr. (born July 26, 1958)[1] is an American former professional stock car racing driver and convicted child sex offender.

Crawford began his racing career as a short-track racer in the southeastern United States.

He won the 1989 running of the prestigious annual short track Snowball Derby race.

After that, he moved to the Slim Jim All Pro Series, where he collected sixty-one top tens, and earned five victories.

He qualified for every race, had ten top-tens, a top 5 at Texas Motor Speedway and finished 12th in the points.

He was also runner-up to Kenny Irwin Jr. for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Rookie of the Year.

Unfortunately, the team struggled to find consistency, with only five top-ten finishes and he dropped to eighteenth in the standings.

2003 saw him grab his second victory, at the Florida Dodge Dealers 250, in a memorable three-wide race to finish line at Daytona International Speedway.

Despite a win at Loudon in 2005, Crawford finished seventeenth in points, mainly due to missing the first race of his Truck career after suffering injuries, ironically while practicing for the Built Ford Tough 225.

Boris Said, who was scheduled to be a guest on the Speed Channel's race coverage, was hired to drive the truck.

Before 2011, Crawford was one of only 3 drivers to compete in all Camping World Truck Series races at Daytona.

However, that statistic was ended in 2011, when Crawford made his Nationwide Series debut driving for Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing at Chicagoland Speedway.

[5] On March 1, 2018, Crawford was arrested in Florida;[6] he was charged for "attempted enticement of a minor," after being caught in an online undercover sting operation involving a Seminole County, Florida Sheriff's deputy working for an FBI sex crimes task force posing as a father offering commercial sexual exploitation of his nonexistent 12 year old daughter in exchange for cash.