NORRISTOWN \u2014 A Berks County man is headed to prison for attempting to meet who he believed was a 14-year-old girl for sex in King of Prussia, but unbeknownst to him he was communicating with an undercover detective.<\/p>\n
Angel Xavier Figueroa, 24, of the 1300 block of Hay Road, Temple, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 2-to-6-years in a state correctional institution after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of attempted aggravated indecent assault of a minor in connection with a November 2024 incident.<\/p>\n
Judge Steven T. O\u2019Neill, who accepted a plea agreement in the case, also ordered Figueroa to complete three years of probation consecutive to parole, meaning Figueroa will be under court supervision for nine years.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neill said Figueroa will be placed under sex offender supervision while on parole and probation. The judge added Figueroa is prohibited from having contact with minors while serving the sentence.<\/p>\n
Figueroa will undergo a psychosexual evaluation and must comply with all recommendations for treatment, the judge said.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Figueroa faces a lifetime requirement to report his address to state police in order to comply with Pennsylvania\u2019s Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act, previously known as Megan\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n
Figueroa was arrested by detectives conducting undercover online investigations regarding child exploitation on social media platforms, according to a criminal complaint filed by Montgomery County Detective Michael Henricks and Upper Merion Detective Michael Davis.<\/p>\n
On Nov. 21, 2024, Figueroa, using a social media chat platform, reached out to an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl, asking, \u201cAre you available tonight? We can make it sneaky,\u201d according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
The conversation was then directed in a sexual manner and included discussions about when and where they could meet, detectives alleged.<\/p>\n
The conversation continued on Nov. 22 and Figueroa agreed to meet who he believed was the teenage girl at a location in the King of Prussia section of Upper Merion. According to the conversation, Figueroa planned to meet the girl and then drive to her home for a sexual encounter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope no one is at your house when we get back\u2026and I hope this isn\u2019t a trap. Not used to traveling this far,\u201d Figueroa wrote, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
When Figueroa arrived at the meet location in the 500 block of Allendale Road in King of Prussia at about 5:30 p.m., detectives moved in and took him into custody.<\/p>\n
During an interview by detectives, Figueroa admitted that he communicated with who he believed was a 14-year-old girl through a \u201cmeet me\u201d application and drove from his Temple residence to King of Prussia \u201cwith intentions of having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old female,\u201d detectives said.<\/p>\n
Other charges of attempted statutory sexual assault, attempted indecent assault of a minor and criminal use of a communication facility were dismissed against Figueroa as part of the plea agreement.<\/p>\n
Assistant District Attorney Anne Caitlyn O\u2019Connell handled the case. Defense lawyer Abigail Silverman Leeds represented Figueroa during the court proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORRISTOWN \u2014 A Berks County man is headed to prison for attempting to meet who he believed was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[46,182,139,28,128,130,129,1015],"class_list":["post-17901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-courts","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-mer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901","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=17901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}