By Steve Neavling
A federal jury has convicted FBI supervisor Eduardo Valdivia of raping three women he lured into his secret tattoo parlors in suburban D.C. with false promises of free ink and modeling contracts.
Valdivia, 41, operated under aliases like Lalo Brown and El Boogie and used an Instagram account, DC Fine Line Tattoos, to attract women, according to prosecutors. Once inside the Montgomery County shop, he filmed himself sexually assaulting them and later used the fake modeling connections to blackmail them into returning.
Authorities said when he wasn’t working for the FBI, he was at the tattoo shop.
The married father of three showed no reaction as jurors found him guilty Friday on four counts of second-degree rape and two counts of fourth-degree sexual offense, the Independent reports. He faces a potential decades-long prison sentence when he is sentenced Oct. 14.
While testifying, Valdivia insisted the encounters were consensual but admitted he destroyed evidence after learning of a warrant for his arrest. He acknowledged he threw away a box of condoms and wiped a laptop and memory card containing sex videos and photos.
Valdivia never told the FBI about his tattoo business and was suspended from the agency. Before joining the bureau in 2011, he had degrees in Spanish literature and public health and helped oversee medical clinics nationwide.
This was his second time on trial in Montgomery County. In 2020, Valdivia was acquitted of attempted murder after shooting a man on a Metro train.
