Overview

• Montgomery County Circuit Judge Cheryl McCally imposed the sentence after a July jury conviction on six counts of second-degree rape and related offenses.
• Prosecutors said Valdivia promised free tattoos and modeling opportunities, recorded the assaults, and used the footage to coerce victims into returning.
• Court filings described operations under aliases including Lalo Brown and El Boogie at studios in Potomac and Gaithersburg, tied to a business called DC Fine Line Tattoos.
• Prosecutors sought the statutory maximum of 122 years, and the judge condemned what she described as evidence destruction and the use of FBI training to control victims.
• Valdivia has been fired from the FBI and is in divorce proceedings, and he was previously acquitted in 2022 in a case stemming from a 2020 Metro train shooting.