{"id":193961,"date":"2026-03-16T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193961\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:34:07","slug":"stuart-teen-accused-of-downloading-child-sexual-abuse-videos-deportation-order-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193961\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart teen accused of downloading child sexual abuse videos; deportation order issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Detectives say a Guatemalan teen living in the U.S. illegally is behind bars after he downloaded multiple videos of children under 7 being sexually abused.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsofl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> say 18-year-old Erivaldo Francisco Argueta, also known as Pablo Ruiz Argueta, was illegally residing in the United States at the time of the incident, and is originally from Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>He was reportedly picked up after the <a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridaicac.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force<\/a> contacted detectives with a tip, saying Argueta had downloaded multiple videos of children younger than 7-years-old being sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-news-vero-beach-airport-the-plane-went-silent-bomb-threat-prompts-k-9-search-on-jetblue-flight-in-vero-beach-federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi-st-lucie-county-sheriffs-office-slcso-indian-river-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;The plane went silent&#8217;: Bomb threat prompts K-9 search on JetBlue flight in Vero Beach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsofl.org\/directory.aspx?did=22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Special Victims Unit<\/a> allegedly tracked Argueta to his home on SE Collins Avenue in Stuart.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Argueta is being held in Martin County Jail for counts of possession of child sexual abuse material, per MCSO. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICE<\/a> also has a deportation order in place to send Argueta back to Guatemala. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Detectives say a Guatemalan teen living in the U.S. illegally is behind bars after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-193961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}