One of them arrested in Vecindario
The Central Operational Unit (UCO) in collaboration with the FBI has arrested 3 people claimed by the United States authorities in different operations in Madrid, Barcelona and Gran Canaria
The 3 detainees were awaiting sentencing for sexual crimes against minors
The Justice Escape Team of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) has arrested three people in different operations in the provinces of Madrid, Barcelona and Gran Canaria, claimed by the United States authorities after having committed sexual crimes against minors. age.
Possession and distribution of files of child sexual content
The first of them, 71 years old, according to US authorities, was part of a criminal network dedicated to the exchange of multimedia files of sexual content of minors. In 2010, the FBI detected an IP address used by this criminal network, which could be found to be located in the vicinity of Miami, allowing the now detainee to be identified as its user, as the owner subscribed to that IP. .
After searching his home, the FBI located a large number of multimedia files with pedophile content on his computer, proceeding to arrest him, with the detainee stating at the time that he had downloaded them “for research purposes.”
Once presented before the judge, he was released and when the date arrived he did not appear for trial. It was learned that he had fled to Honduras, where he obtained Honduran nationality to avoid his extradition. However, after learning that he had recently traveled to Spain, the FBI contacted the UCO of the Civil Guard, whose investigators located and detained the fugitive in the town of Getafe (Madrid), where he apparently lived. normal.
He marketed the sexual material that his victim sent him
The second of them, 23 years old, is accused of threatening and coercing a minor through a well-known messaging platform for gamers, to record pornographic material, which the detainee later marketed. The events occurred on several occasions, between October 2022 and January 2023, in Kalamazoo County (Michigan) in the United States.
To locate this person, the FBI contacted the UCO of the Civil Guard, who was able to determine that the fugitive was studying a Master's Degree in Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Barcelona, information that facilitated his location and arrest. .
He sexually assaulted his 12-year-old stepdaughter, leaving her pregnant
The third of them, 55 years old, sexually assaulted his 12-year-old stepdaughter in 2014, with whom he lived together with her mother and siblings, and as a result of this sexual assault, the minor became pregnant. When the victim gave birth, DNA tests determined that her attacker was his father and, when trying to arrest him, it was found that he had fled the US towards Spain.
The UCO investigators, in collaboration with the FBI, were able to find out that he had traveled to Barcelona and that he had subsequently moved to the town of Benidorm (Alicante), where he settled for several months. Later the Civil Guard verified that he had embarked towards the island of Gran Canaria, being located in Vecindario, where he was finally arrested by UCO agents.
The investigations have been carried out by the Justice Escape Team of the Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard, in collaboration with the US authorities.
