{"id":483619,"date":"2026-10-03T06:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483619\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T06:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:20:22","slug":"san-jose-man-avoids-jail-for-meeting-cop-posing-as-girl-but-gets-lifetime-sex-offender-status-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483619\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose man avoids jail for meeting cop posing as girl, but gets lifetime sex offender status"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUBLIN \u2014 A San Jose man was sentenced to a three-year probation term after being convicted of arranging to meet an undercover cop who was posing as a 13-year-old girl online.<\/p>\n

Aldo Castillo, 30, must register as a sex offender for life as part of his sentencing. Judge Toni Mims-Cochran rejected a prosecution argument to sentence Castillo to four years in state prison, instead giving him two days he\u2019d already served in county jail, plus the probation term, records show.<\/p>\n

Castillo was arrested in 2023 after talking online with an undercover Dublin officer who was pretending to be a 13-year-old girl<\/a>. Their talks started when the \u201cgirl\u201d posted something about needing a hair dryer and Castillo joked about getting her one for a sexual favor, according to prosecutors. He was arrested after heading off to a meeting with the purported girl, court records show.<\/p>\n

At his April sentencing hearing, prosecutors argued that Castillo \u201clied multiple times throughout\u201d court proceedings, including during his February trial, where he was convicted of two felonies<\/a>. The defense argued Castillo endured a traumatic childhood and that prison would \u201conly harm and destabilize\u201d him further.<\/p>\n

Castillo is appealing his convictions, court records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBLIN \u2014 A San Jose man was sentenced to a three-year probation term after being convicted of arranging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[861,862,189204,189203,189202,189201,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-483619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-dublin-arrest","tag-dublin-police","tag-dublin-to-catch-a-predator-sting","tag-dublin-undercover-sting","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}