North Carolina Man Sentenced To 180 Months’ Imprisonment For Production Of Child Pornography

HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brayan Garcia-Vazquez, age 25, of Haverlock, North Carolina, was sentenced on April 1, 2026, to 180 months of imprisonment by Senior United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion for production of child pornography.

According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, a minor victim disclosed during a forensic interview that there was a video of her having sex with Garcia-Vazquez, and that he knew she was 12 years old at the time they had sexual intercourse. The minor victim explained that she had met Garcia-Vazquez on Instagram about a year beforehand.

Garcia-Vazquez came to the minor victim's home on two separate days to have sexual intercourse. The second day he brought the minor victim a gold bracelet and they had intercourse again. Garcia-Vazquez recorded the sex act that day and shared the video with the minor victim, whose mother eventually found it and contacted law enforcement. Garcia-Vazquez was identified as the perpetrator through forensic analysis of the minor victim's phone and matching Garcia-Vazquez with the male in the video.

Garcia-Vazquez faces deportation following the completion of this sentence.

Homeland Security Investigations investigated the case. Assistant United States Attorney Michael Scalera prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.usdoj.gov/pscLinks to other government and non-government sites will typically appear with the "external link" icon to indicate that you are leaving the Department of Justice website when you click the link..

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