A Weehawken man received a 70-month prison sentence for soliciting sexually explicit pictures and videos from two 15-year-old girls, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger announced.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
Erick Solis, 25, of Weehawken, previously pleaded guilty before retired U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty to an information charging him with one count of solicitation of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
U.S. District Judge Julien X. Neals imposed the sentence yesterday in Newark federal court.
From July 2020 to February 2021, Solis used a social media application to engage victims in sexually explicit conversations. Solis requested that both minor victims, 15, take sexually explicit photographs and videos of themselves and send them to him.
In addition to the prison term, Neals sentenced Solis to five years of supervised release.
Sellinger credited special agents with the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James E. Dennehy, in Newark, with the investigation leading to today’s sentencing.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Dong Joo Lee of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in Newark.
