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Former Sheriff's deputy in court for sex sting case
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A former San Diego County Sheriff's Department sergeant was in court Tuesday after pleading guilty to arranging a meeting for sex with a decoy pretending to be a 15-year-old boy.
Luis Rios, 56, was supposed to be sentenced but that all changed at the last minute.
In October, Rios pleaded guilty to a felony, admitting he met up with a decoy he thought was a teenager.
The charge stemmed from an undercover sting operation set up by an online vigilante group. The group's founder posed as a 15-year-old boy online and lured Rios to a parking lot in Mission Valley to meet for sex.
Rios was facing up to a year in jail at his sentencing hearing Tuesday. But his defense attorney asked for a continuance because Rios has moved to Nevada and wants to serve his sentence there.
“He wanted to see whether or not he could contact probation up in Nevada, and see what terms and conditions should be in Nevada, if he was sentenced in this case,” Deputy District Attorney Ramona McCarthy said outside the courtroom.
An arrest warrant in the case alleges Rios, who used to work in the downtown jail, engaged in sexually explicit text messages with the undercover decoy in 2021 and 2022. The subsequent meeting and confrontation were live-streamed on YouTube, leading to Rios' arrest in April.
Rios is no longer with the sheriff's department.
FULL STORY: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/ex-san-diego-sheriffs-deputy-teen-sex-sting/509-bfad3557-b880-4bc0-956f-22ef3a4fb6ce