{"id":196488,"date":"2026-03-18T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196488\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:46:08","slug":"man-awaits-sentencing-in-miami-after-convictions-related-to-a-girls-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196488\/","title":{"rendered":"Man awaits sentencing in Miami after convictions related to a girl\u2019s sexual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 18, 2026 at 11:05 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7S4EPHXG6FDLTKZW7DIGYSJYWY.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>MIAMI FEDERAL COURT CASE A jury convicted Ramon Arellano Sandoval on Tuesday in federal court in Miami. Federal agents found he exchanged thousands of text and video messages with a 14-year-old girl in rural Florida, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A 65-year-old man was awaiting sentencing in prison on Wednesday in downtown Miami after a conviction related to the sexual abuse of a teen, records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ramon Arellano Sandoval, who was living in Tennessee, sexually abused the teenage girl in rural Florida and in rural Colombia, according to federal prosecutors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Arellano Sandoval \u201cpressured a child to create sexually explicit videos and even traveled overseas to abuse her,\u201d U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason A. Reding Qui\u00f1ones said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdfl\/pr\/miami-jury-convicts-tennessee-man-attempted-sex-trafficking-minor-and-attempted\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdfl\/pr\/miami-jury-convicts-tennessee-man-attempted-sex-trafficking-minor-and-attempted\">a statement<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After a probe that involved Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the evidence included thousands of text and video messages, and a record of electronic payments, records showed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before finding Arellano Sandoval guilty on Feb. 24 of attempted sex trafficking of a minor and attempted production of visual depictions of the sexual exploitation of a minor, a jury learned he was accused of also trying to traffic the girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe jury\u2019s verdict delivered justice for a 14-year-old victim who was targeted and exploited by a 65-year-old man who knew exactly what he was doing,\u201d Reding Qui\u00f1ones said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Arellano Sandoval faces up to life in federal prison for attempted sex trafficking and up to 30 years for attempted production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related social media<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TN MAN FACES LIFE + 30 FOR ATTEMPTING TO SEX TRAFFIC A MINOR AND PRODUCE ILLICIT CONTENT OF HER<\/p>\n<p>A jury convicted 65-year-old Ramon Arellano Sandoval after an ICE @HSIMiami probe found he exchanged thousands of text and video messages with a 14-year-old girl in rural Florida.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DITAcRbNy4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DITAcRbNy4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICEgov\/status\/2034028306887070140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 17, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 18, 2026 at 11:05 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandMIAMI FEDERAL COURT CASE A jury convicted Ramon Arellano Sandoval on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-196488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196488","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=196488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}