Crime & Safety
Reston Man Pleads Guilty on Child Porn Charges
Alex Ernesto Calderon Velasquez also fled original court date.
A Reston man plead guilty on Thursday to producing child pornography after he enticed two children to perform explicit activity that he recorded.
Alex Ernesto Calderon Velasquez entered the plea in federal court in Alexandria. He faces up to 30 years in prison at sentencing in October.
According to a statement of facts, Calderon Velasquez communicated online with a 14-year-old girl in Texas. Prosecutors say he extorted the victim into engage in sexual activity on Skype. Authorities say Calderon Velasquez also persuaded a child in Arizona to engage in sexually explicit conduct that was recorded.
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Calderon Velasquez also pleaded guilty to failure to appear in court after he cut off his ankle monitoring device and left the state in May. He had been scheduled to make a guilty plea May 24. He was arrested in June in San Antonio, Texas.
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