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cop brief Date published: 9/29/2009
State gets more time to answer recant suit The Virginia Attorney General's office has been given an extension of its deadline for responding to a civil suit filed by a former Aquia Harbour teen currently on the state sex offender registry for a rape his accuser says didn't happen. The boy, who is now 18, sued the state Department of Juvenile Justice in an effort to clear his name of his convictions and get his name off the public registry. The attorney general's office is representing the Department of Juvenile Justice and has until Nov. 4 to file its response in Stafford Circuit Court. The lawsuit was filed Aug. 18, and a response was originally due last Friday. The boy's attorneys agreed to the delay that was requested by the attorney general's office. --Pamela Gould Man guilty in Louisa online child-sex sting A 19-year-old former day care worker has been convicted in Louisa County of sexual solicitation of a minor, Commonwealth's Attorney Tom Garrett announced yesterday. Robert Cox, 19, of Richmond was arrested in an undercover operation by the Louisa Sheriff's Office last fall as part of the county's Child Safety Initiative. Garrett said an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl was contacted by Cox in an Internet chat room. Cox sent the "girl" an explicit photograph of himself and set up an Oct. 18 meeting in Louisa, Garrett said. When Cox arrived for the meeting, he was arrested by members of the Louisa Internet Crimes against Children Task Force. Cox, who is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 21, was working at a day care center in Henrico County at the time of his arrest, Garrett said. In a news release, Garrett said CSI Louisa was launched in February 2008 to help protect children in Louisa County. More than a dozen people have been arrested in the effort, none of them from Louisa, Garrett said. --Staff Report Local man pleads to federal drug charges A Fredericksburg-area man faces the possibility of life in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to federal drug trafficking charges. Nelson Wilfredo Rios, 49, pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking charges on the third day of his trial in District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria. A federal grand jury indicted Rios in May on charges of conspiracy to import cocaine. His sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 15, 2009. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Rios helped a Mexican-based drug trafficking organization smuggle multiple kilogram loads of cocaine from Mexico to the United States. The organization used secret compartments built into vehicles to hold the cocaine, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. The attorney's office also said Rios recruited for the organization for the specific reason of transporting cocaine. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mary Barr Daly and Dennis Fitzpatrick were the prosecutors. --Dan Telvock
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