On May 26, 2022, an investigator with the Rockland Countyβs District Attorneyβs Office (βInvestigator-1), who was working in an undercover capacity and posing as a 13-year-old girl on an online platform, engaged in text communications with REED. Investigator-1 told REED that she was 13 years old. During the communications, REED requested sexually explicit photos of Investigator-1 and asked her to meet with him to have sex. REED described the sexual things he wanted to do to Investigator-1 and, when she asked if he was βok with my age,β REED responded, βYes of course.β REED made a plan to meet Investigator-1 on the evening of May 26, 2022, in Rockland County, New York to have sex.
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BRIAN REED was sentenced to 15 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Phillip M. Halpern for attempted enticement of a minor. The sentencing today followed REEDβs guilty plea on October 23, 2023.