{"id":417726,"date":"2025-12-01T18:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417726\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:12:16","slug":"mexican-national-sentenced-to-35-years-after-targeting-north-texas-minor-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417726\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican national sentenced to 35 years after targeting North Texas minor online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c48c63b7-gavelnew-1.jpg\" alt=\"gavel\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; A 27-year-old man from Mexico was sentenced to federal prison for enticing a minor from North Texas while producing child pornography.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Emmanuel Jacobo Reyes, a Mexican citizen, pleaded guilty over the summer to one count of the production of child pornography and one count of receipt of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">According to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Texas, he was sentenced last week to 35 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Federal prosecutors said Reyes admitted that he convinced a minor from North Richland Hills to send him sexually explicit videos. At the time, Reyes was living in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Investigators with the North Richland Hills Police Department and the FBI searched the victim\u2019s cellphone and found evidence, including screenshots from video chats between Reyes and the victim.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The investigators used one of the screenshots showing Reyes\u2019 face to identify him and arrest him.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office said this case was part of the FBI\u2019s national &#8220;Operation Restore Justice&#8221; campaign to track down child sex predators.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">So far, the operation has resulted in the rescue of 115 children and the arrest of 205 child sexual abuse suspects.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">In many cases, parental vigilance and community outreach efforts have played a critical role in bringing the alleged offenders to justice.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Reyes\u2019 mugshot was not released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story comes from a news release from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Northern District of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/north-richland-hills\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Richland Hills<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; A 27-year-old man from Mexico was sentenced to federal prison for enticing a minor from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,50,42116,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-417726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-north-richland-hills","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115645668030016049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}