In San Antonio this morning, 29-year-old Vicente Rodriguez Hinojos, III, was sentenced to 585 months in federal prison for production of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
In addition to the prison term, Senior United States District Judge David A. Ezra ordered that Hinojos pay two of his victims $25,000 each in restitution and be placed on supervised release for a period of ten years after completing his prison term. Hinojos has remained in federal custody since his arrest on May 27, 2016.
On April 19, 2017, Hinojos pleaded guilty to two counts of production of child pornography. By pleading guilty, Hinojos admitted that between 2012 and May 12, 2016, he produced visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor. According to court records, two of Hinojos’ victims were as young as two years old.
Agents from the FBI’s San Antonio Division executed a search warrant for the defendant’s residence on May 26, 2016, where they seized the defendant’s computer, USB thumbdrives, Apple iPhone and an HTC cellular phone. A subsequent forensics evaluation of one of Hinojos’ phones revealed the presence of child pornography.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted this investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Tracy Thompson prosecuted this case on behalf of the Government.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
