{"id":343490,"date":"2026-07-17T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343490\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:02:12","slug":"trio-accused-in-child-prostitution-sting-in-virginia-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343490\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio accused in child prostitution sting in Virginia Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 17, 2026 at 10:32 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\/07\/MDPQH4V2KRGQVMYS6YCP4ORIM4.png\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Mugshots of: Xavier Lopez, Dominick Munoz and Alain Pacheco (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VIRGINIA GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 Authorities say they busted three South Florida men who went to a Virginia Gardens hotel on Thursday seeking to pay hundreds of dollars for sex with young girls. Instead, they were met by undercover detectives, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to arrest reports from the Virginia Gardens Police Department, the agency worked with the Miami-Dade State Attorney\u2019s Office Human Trafficking Task Force and the Miami Police Department on the sting, similar to others conducted in recent weeks in both Miami-Dade and Broward counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In it, detectives posed as a woman pimping out two girls. They said Xavier Lopez, 30, of Miami Beach; Dominick Munoz, 23, of Surfside; and Alain Pacheco, 18, of Hialeah; agreed to pay anywhere from $250 to $650 for sex with the children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said they detained the men as soon as each opened the door to the hotel room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Each faces felony charges of child trafficking, traveling to meet a minor and online child solicitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Friday morning, all were being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, with bonds listed as \u201cto be set\u201d in online jail records.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/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=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 17, 2026 at 10:32 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandMugshots of: Xavier Lopez, Dominick Munoz and Alain Pacheco (MDCR) VIRGINIA GARDENS,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-343490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343490","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=343490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}