Ex-FBI agent sentenced to 60 years for rapes in Maryland tattoo parlors

Luke Parker, The Baltimore Sun on Oct 15, 2025

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BALTIMORE — A former FBI agent was sentenced to 60 years in prison Tuesday after raping three women he’d lured into his tattoo parlors in Gaithersburg and Potomac.

A jury convicted Eduardo Valdivia of six rape counts and two sex offenses following a nearly two-week trial in Montgomery County Circuit Court this summer. The 41-year-old faced a maximum 122-year sentence in what Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy called “one of the most dastardly evil, schemed crimes I’ve seen in 40 years.”

According to police and prosecutors, outside his supervisory role at the FBI, Valdivia quietly set up two tattoo shops across the county and promoted them on social media using several aliases. Detectives said the married father then messaged young girls, one of them a high school senior, and promised them free tattoos and modeling opportunities through his shop and fake connections.

The scheme was attuned to Valdivia’s training and skillset in deception, McCarthy told reporters after Tuesday’s hearing.

“He was using the techniques he learned in the FBI in terms of grooming and manipulation to manipulate these young girls,” McCarthy said.

A defense attorney for Valdivia did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

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