Ron Rivera, aka Banditcap7, gets fifteen years
Today we learned that Banditcap71 was sentenced to fifteen years in federal prison for molesting a young boy in North Dakota. The case of Ron Rivera aka Banditcap71 was one of the most disturbing and harrowing that we have come across.
Rivera had solicited one of our decoy profiles sexually and we were working on getting him arrested in Suffolk County, New York.
During the conversation, Rivera asks our decoy if he'd like to know how he's "safe." He then brings in a 13 year old boy from North Dakota that he'd previously molested into the conversation.
We investigated to see if the boy was real and he was. We located him and turned the information over to the police. From there, Rivera was convicted on the charge of solicitation from his conversations with us... and then sent to North Dakota for charges of sexual abuse.
Rivera's case is now finished, he received fifteen years in federal prison for crossing state lines to molest the actual young boy he had already met online. We're very happy to know that he will no longer be prowling on the internet for kids and that he will have a good spell in federal prison.
For more information on an amazingly bizarre case,Read his chat-log and conviction file.