{"id":349982,"date":"2026-07-23T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349982\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:40:18","slug":"northwest-miami-dade-raid-leads-to-mans-arrest-for-sharing-child-sex-abuse-videos-feds-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349982\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Miami-Dade raid leads to man\u2019s arrest for sharing child sex abuse videos, feds say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A northwest Miami-Dade man had child sexual abuse material up in \u201cmultiple open windows\u201d on a computer when federal law enforcement officers raided his home on Wednesday as part of an international investigation, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/23\/arrestan-a-hombre-tras-allanamiento-en-el-noroeste-de-miami-dade-por-compartir-videos-de-abuso-sexual-infantil-informan-autoridades-federales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/23\/arrestan-a-hombre-tras-allanamiento-en-el-noroeste-de-miami-dade-por-compartir-videos-de-abuso-sexual-infantil-informan-autoridades-federales\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FBI agents accuse Roger Ignacio Sanchez, 63, of distributing images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children across \u201cmultiple chat rooms\u201d in an unnamed application. He now faces two federal charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to a federal criminal complaint, a law enforcement officer in another country \u2015 later implied to be Switzerland \u2015 reported to the FBI in April 2025 that he or she was tracking a user on the application later identified as Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That summer, authorities said an undercover FBI agent saw Sanchez distributing images and videos of child rape and sexual abuse on the application, including one depicting a victim as young as 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the complaint, during a chat with the undercover FBI agent, Sanchez \u201cindicated that he was sexually interested in both girls and boys ages 6 to 16, but noted that he has never sexually abused a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said FBI agents in Albany, New York, through a Swiss legal attach\u00e9, were able to obtain <a href=\"https:\/\/onesignal.com\/glossary\/push-token\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/onesignal.com\/glossary\/push-token\">\u201cpush token\u201d information<\/a> from the application that helped them identify Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said his account had been blocked in August as \u201cin the course of deleting prohibited groups\u201d on the application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The complaint states that in March, agents began conducting surveillance at Sanchez\u2019s home in the 18900 block of Northwest 85th Court in Miami-Dade\u2019s unincorporated Palm Springs North area. They said they executed a search warrant there on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said after clearing the home of everyone inside, they saw a computer in Sanchez\u2019s bedroom \u201cwith an application open with multiple open windows that depicted (child sexual abuse material)\u201d and reviewed the computer to find that he was still distributing the illicit content. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Records show he appeared in Miami federal court later that afternoon on two counts related to the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sanchez posted a $250,000 personal surety bond, records show. He\u2019s scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 12.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A northwest Miami-Dade man had child sexual abuse material up in \u201cmultiple open windows\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-349982","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\/349982","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=349982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}