SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On May 4, 2026, United States District Court Judge Gina Méndez-Miró sentenced Juan Edgardo Negrón-Navarro to 360 months (30 years) in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for two counts for sexual exploitation of children, and one count of interstate threat communications. Negrón-Navarro, 28, from Jayuya, Puerto Rico, was indicted on June 26, 2025, arrested on July 2, 2025, and pleaded guilty on December 5, 2025.
According to court documents, from in or about April 2023 to in or about May 2023, Negrón-Navarro did knowingly employ, use, persuade, induce, entice, and coerce a female minor between 15 and 16 years old (Minor 1) to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of such conduct. The defendant produced sexually explicit images of such conduct.
Additionally, from in or about September 2024 to in or about November 2024, Negrón-Navarro did knowingly employ, use, persuade, induce, entice, and coerce another female minor while she was 17 years of age (Minor 2), to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions of such conduct. At the same time, the defendant produced sexually explicit images of such conduct.
Moreover, on or about August 3, 2024, Negrón-Navarro, through the Internet, threatened to kill an adult female if she did not send him sexually explicit images.
U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow of the District of Puerto Rico and Carlos Goris, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI San Juan Field Office made the announcement.
The FBI investigated the case with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau.
Assistant US Attorney (AUSA) Emelina Agrait-Barreto of the Child Exploitation and Immigration Unit prosecuted the case.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.
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Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office — Puerto Rico — U.S. Department of Justice press release.