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Soldier deployed to El Paso area border was busted in teen sex sting

Axel Cabrera, 22, is a Fort Carson Soldier that was among those soldiers deployed to the El Paso border. This deployment included an extended stay hotel room. Cabrera was hoping to bring a “15-year-old girl” to this room. However, this individual was an agent. Cabrera purchased condoms and gummy bears, as this individual requested, but was arrested as he made his way to the meeting point.

From the El Paso Times:

Assistant District Attorney John Briggs said that Cabrera was communicating online with an undercover agent posing as a 15-year-old girl.

During the conversations with the girl, Cabrera told her that he was in the Army and was only going to be in El Paso for a little while before eventually discussing plans to have sex with her in his room at an extended-stay hotel, Briggs said.

The prosecution alleged that Cabrera made plans to meet the girl at a nearby restaurant before planning to take her to his room for an illicit underage tryst.

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A surveillance team watched Cabrera leave the hotel and go to a gas station, where he purchased “condoms and gummy bears, because she also requested gummy bears along with protection,” Briggs said.

Cabrera then returned to his hotel. The girl soon texted him, saying she was at the restaurant. Cabrera was arrested while on his way to the meeting at the restaurant, the prosecution said.

Texas DPS and other law enforcement agencies regularly run undercover online solicitation-of-a-minor and prostitution stings, modern variations of the street-walker prostitution stings of decades past.

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On Monday, Cabrera remained incarcerated at the El Paso County Jail in Downtown under a $40,000 total bond. At Saturday’s bond hearing, Magistrate Judge Tony Aun split the bond amount, making it $15,000 cash or corporate surety and $25,000 personal recognizance, which only requires a signature.

If released from jail, the judge also ordered that Cabrera must follow any restrictions set by the military.

The El Paso Times has additional details.

19 thoughts on “Soldier deployed to El Paso area border was busted in teen sex sting

  1. I hope you enjoy your stay at the Texas Extended Stay motel where you can enjoy a buffet of man meat sandwiches and unlimited sex in the shower.

    1. When you scrape the 4F bottom of the barrel, and STILL can’t make numbers…..

  2. Hack Stone remembers when you had to take a girl to an expensive restaurant in order to “close the deal”. Nowadays it was not required Gummi Bears. Just hoping that they were glutton free.

    1. Believe I read Shaq is a sheriff’s deputy working this kind of deal. Imagine expecting a tender young chica and getting Shaq!

    2. Not every time. But even when it isn’t, it sure makes it easy to get convicted with all that evidence.

  3. Thinking with the wrong head.
    Only enough blood to operate one at a time.

  4. Surprised he was not promoted in this day and age on minor-attracted person.

    The “New Army” all all.

    Throw away the key.

  5. If that was me, I would have asked the Chick to bring over a record player and a record called “I’m So Young” by the
    Students 1958 on the Argo label so we could listen to the tune while making it.

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