{"id":157036,"date":"2026-04-04T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157036\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:25:22","slug":"nj-air-force-officer-indicted-on-child-exploitation-charges-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157036\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Air Force officer indicted on child exploitation charges \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Burlington County, New Jersey, man who served in the United States Air Force was indicted on Thursday, April 1, on several child exploitation charges.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer said 31-year-old Gabriel Perez was charged in a two-count Superseding Indictment with attempted enticement and coercion of a minor, and attempted transfer of obscene materials to a minor.<\/p>\n

Resources for victims of sexual assault are available through the National Sexual Violence Resources Center and the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at\u00a0800-656-4673<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, the incident happened in August 2024, when Perez was 29 years old and an Air Force officer.<\/p>\n

Officials said Perez communicated over Reddit with an undercover law enforcement officer who was pretending to be a 14-year-old girl. Over the course of two weeks, Perez expressed his interest in meeting with the “girl” for sex.<\/p>\n

On August 28, 2024, Perez sent an obscene picture of himself to the “minor” and arranged to meet her the next day for sex, according to officials.<\/p>\n

The next day, Perez drove to the meeting location and was arrested by law enforcement, officials said.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Perez faces a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years and a maximum sentence of life on the attempted enticement and coercion of a minor charges and 10 years on the charge for attempted transfer of obscene materials to a minor. Each of the offenses also carry a fine of $250,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Burlington County, New Jersey, man who served in the United States Air Force was indicted on Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6376,915,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-157036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}