Monday, June 13, 2011 | 3:38 p.m.
A federal judge sentenced a Las Vegas man to 37 years in prison for soliciting sex over the Internet from a person he thought was a minor, Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said.
Darryl Owen Walizer, 43 was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Philip Pro after being convicted of coercion and enticement of a minor and commission of a felony sex offense by an individual required to register as a sex offender.
Federal law states a person convicted of being a repeat sex offender must serve 10 years in prison consecutive to other sentences. This was the first time a defendant in Nevada had been charged and convicted after the law was passed in 2006. Walizer has two prior convictions for solicitation of a juvenile in Virginia and importuning in Ohio.
In March 2010, Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities in Las Vegas received information from police in Garland, Texas, that one of their detectives, who was acting in an undercover capacity as a 14-year-old girl, was contacted online by Walizer in February 2010 and solicited for sex. Walizer, thinking he was communicating with the girl, asked the agent about her level of sexual experience, and if she was looking for an older guy to teach her about sex.
In continued online conversations, Walizer’s statements became more sexually graphic, authorities said.
He told the "girl" he loved her and that she was his girlfriend, and began speaking about engaging in sexual acts with her. The agent told Walizer she was going to Las Vegas to see an uncle. Immigration agents arrested Walizer at McCarran International Airport on March 12, 2010.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Nancy Koppe and Cristina Silva.
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