Juan Edgardo Negrón-Navarro, 28, from Jayuya, Puerto Rico, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, on May 4, 2026, for two counts of child sexual exploitation and one count of interstate threat communications.
United States District Court Judge Gina Méndez-Miró delivered the sentence after Negrón-Navarro pleaded guilty on December 5, 2025. Court documents detail that from April to May 2023, Negrón-Navarro knowingly coerced a female minor, aged 15-16, into sexually explicit conduct to produce visual depictions.
He also engaged in similar conduct with another 17-year-old female minor from September to November 2024, producing explicit images. Additionally, on August 3, 2024, Negrón-Navarro used the internet to threaten an adult female, demanding sexually explicit images under threat of death.
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, announced the sentencing. The FBI investigated the case with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, and Assistant US Attorney Emelina Agrait-Barreto prosecuted.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide Department of Justice initiative launched in May 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse by marshaling federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute offenders and rescue victims.