Overview

• A federal jury found Terranova guilty in November 2024 of sexually exploiting, attempting to exploit and coercing three 15-year-olds and a 12-year-old
• On July 17, 2025, Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto sentenced him to 40 years in federal prison during a hearing in Brooklyn
• He abused his NYPD authority to obtain a robbery victim’s phone number and then used Snapchat and Instagram to groom underage boys and solicit explicit images from a 12-year-old
• Investigators documented that he transported two 15-year-old victims to secluded locations for hands-on abuse and made at least 16 trips to Texas where he purchased a home to facilitate sexual encounters
• Prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York and the FBI led the case under Project Safe Childhood to combat online child exploitation