A Nevada man was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday in U.S. District Court in Denver for traveling across state lines with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.
Brian Franklin Howard, 38, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty on September 11, 2015, to one count of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 10-year-old minor child. He has been in custody since his arrest on April 2, 2015.
U.S. District Judge Christine M. Arguello of the District of Colorado, who sentenced Howard, also ordered the defendant to serve 10 years of supervised release.
According to the plea agreement, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) agent, posing as a single mother of two minor children, came into contact with Howard online. Howard then arranged to meet the mother and her children and flew from Las Vegas to the Denver International Airport, where he met the undercover agent, confirmed his intent to have sex with children and was arrested.
“Defendant’s chilling and detailed effort to come to Colorado to rape children fully deserves the severe sentence imposed by Judge Arguello,” said U.S. Attorney John Walsh. “Let this case serve as a warning.”
ICE-HSI investigated this case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Alecia Riewerts of the District of Colorado and Trial Attorney James E. Burke IV of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) prosecuted the case.
Related Federal Cases
- Brian Franklin Howard, Aggravated Sexual Abuse with Children, Colorado 2015 · Colorado
- Renad Bautista, Travel With Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct, Pennsylvania 2019 · Colorado
- Shaw Warrington, Soliciting Minors on Reddit, California 2023 · Florida
- ROBERT RYAN POWELL, Sex Trafficking, Washington 2016 · Colorado
- Robert Bove, Child Pornography, North Carolina 2011 · North Carolina
Key Facts
- State: Colorado
- Category: Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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