Ex-deputy sheriff from Texas gets 18 years for exploiting young girls
WORCESTER, Mass. โ A former deputy sheriff from Texas has been sentenced to more than 18 years in prison for sexually exploiting young girls from Massachusetts he met online, federal prosecutors said. The former deputy sheriff with the Matagorda County Sheriffโs Office southwest of Houston met one girl in 2014 when she was 12 while playing the video game Minecraft, federal prosecutors said. Salas asked the girl for sexually explicit images and videos of herself, and threatened to send them to her friends and family to intimidate her into maintaining contact, prosecutors said. He also solicited sexually explicit images from a second victim, starting when she was 12, prosecutors said.