Stephen L. Negron, Transporting a Minor for Sexual Activity, Ohio 2024

Stephen L. Negron, 42, of Rogersville, Tennessee, charged with transporting a minor to engage in sexual activity

CINCINNATI – Stephen L. Negron, 42, of Rogersville, Tennessee, has been charged federally with transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, a federal crime punishable by at least 10 years and up to life in prison.

Negron was found in Florida with a missing Colerain teenager on March 13. The charges were filed in the Southern District of Ohio.

Cell phone data revealed the victim’s cell phone was powered off on Feb. 13. Just prior to being turned off, cell site data placed the phone at an intersection near the victim’s home.

Subsequent review of area security cameras showed a silver Chevrolet pickup truck with a Tennessee license plate number registered to Negron in the vicinity at the same time. Investigators used license plate readers to track the truck’s previous travel southbound through Kentucky and into Tennessee.

Negron will be transferred to the Southern District of Ohio to face his charges here. Dominick S. Gerace II, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Jason Cromartie, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cincinnati Division; Colerain Township Police Chief Edwin C. Cordie III and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced the charges.

This case is part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

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