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Specialized units from CNP's Directorate for Protection and Special Services (DIPRO), assisted by HSI Bogota agents, arrested Sandra Carabali Valencia on child exploitation charges. She is accused of sexually exploiting two children - ages 3 and 9 - who have since been rescued and placed in a home by Colombia's Child Protective Services.

Harley Michael Peterson, 23, of Toledo, Ohio, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison. He was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release after he completes his prison term, during which time he will be required to comply with numerous conditions of release designed to minimize his contact with children and access to the Internet.

The investigation into Daniel M. Layne, 33, began in Maine when the mother of a 14-year-old girl discovered a motel key card in her daughter's pants pocket and sexually graphic text messages on her cellphone.

Between February 2013 and early February 2014, Dale Wray Fulford, 77, used, persuaded, induced and enticed a girl, under age 18, to engage in sexually explicit conduct that he recorded on a digital camera.

HSI special agents arrested Hilton Rios-Rivera, aka Pochy, for having transported a 14-year-old minor on approximately three different occasions to motels in order to engage in sexually explicit conduct with her.

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is seeking the public's help to identify possible victims of Blaine K. Nipp, a convicted sex offender indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on multiple child exploitation charges.

According to the factual resume filed in the case, Joshua Earls, 30, of Garland, Texas, admitted that while he was a youth pastor, he established a relationship with a girl at his church, 'Jane Doe,' who was 16 years old at the time.

Travis Brown was indicted Jan. 29 on five felony charges, including four counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Brown is an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas in Fort Smith.

Minh Thong, 30, was originally arrested at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) as he attempted to travel to Hong Kong. Thong appeared in federal court in Los Angeles (the Central District of California). A U.S. Magistrate Judge there ordered U.S. Marshals to transport Thong to Denver.

Melvin Rivera-Gonzalez, a 27-year-old physical education teacher of a local school in Toa Baja, was arrested Friday for allegedly enticing, coercing and inducing one of his students, a 15-year-old female minor, into sexually criminal conduct.

Hector Manuel Carreon, 47, will be subject to a lifetime of supervised release upon completion of his 50-year prison term and he will be required to register as a sex offender.

"On June 24, 2013, an undercover HSI special agent conducting a ""catch the predator"" operation posted an ad and received numerous responses, including some from an individual responding to the ad who ultimately identified himself as Thomas Andrew Quinton, a Canadian citizen."

Roberto Garcia, 29, from Pharr, Texas, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa. Garcia was further ordered to serve a term of five years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender. He pleaded guilty to the charges Jan. 24, 2012.

Travis Humphrey, aka GT, 26, and Kyoni Humphrey, aka Kyoni Nieves, 24, allegedly conspired to force a minor female to engage in prostitution and illegal sexual activity between May 15 and June 3.

David H. Scanlan III, 38, is charged with distributing child pornography over the Internet between May and June 2011. He has surrendered his medical license.

According to the factual resume filed in the case, in May 2010, Dwight L. Looney, 62, from Fort Worth, knowingly used, persuaded and enticed 'Jane Doe' to engage in sexually explicit conduct; Looney used a digital camera to take a still image of that conduct.

Michael J. Carroll, a Connecticut computer technician who claimed hackers were responsible for sexually explicit images of minors linked to him, was convicted Thursday by an Alaska federal jury of advertising child pornography and two counts of distribution of child pornography.

James Leland Copeland was a wanted person from Tennessee for failing to register as a sex offender. Marshals Service officials determined Copeland was living in Hallettsville and had failed to register within the state of Texas.

Kenneth Robert McVicker III, a former Maryland resident who moved to Ecuador where he sexually abused young boys and produced child pornography, was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison.

An Antelope Valley landscaper, Robert Dale Schrader, is scheduled to make his initial appearance in federal court Tuesday following his arrest on federal child pornography charges for allegedly generating sexually explicit images of a 3-month-old infant and emailing them to an undercover investigator in England.

Christopher Gary Carlson, 40, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in November 2013. According to court records, Wenatchee police received several reports last April of an individual using the username "warlock666" trading images of child sex abuse over the Internet.

Darrell Hughes, 55, of Muncie, was charged Jan. 31 in a criminal complaint with one count of sexually exploiting a minor and two counts of attempting to sexually exploit a minor.

On April 3, HSI special agents arrested Felix Pagan-Crispin. According to court records, he produced sexually explicit images of minors. His arrest was part of an HSI San Juan initiative and anti-child exploitation campaign dubbed Broken Silence that ran from February through April 2013 and netted 10 arrests during the nine-week period.

According to the criminal complaint, from approximately April 2009 through June 2012, Kevin Charles Kaszynski, 48, possessed child pornography. While going through boxes at a leased storage unit, his wife uncovered a computer hard drive, along with other items belonging to her husband.

Steven Metz, a former supervisor with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in New York, was sentenced to five years in federal prison Wednesday for possession of approximately 3,000 images and 70 videos of child pornography on his computer at his residence in Hamburg.