Fired Disney Channel actor sentenced to federal prison for trying to meet a 13-year-old for sex



Former Disney Channel actor Stoney Westmoreland was sentenced to two years in federal prison for attempting to lure a minor to have sex with him.

Westmoreland had faced a 10-year prison sentence for the charge of enticement of a minor over the internet, but copped a plea deal with prosecutors to the lesser charge of using interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor, according to Deadline.

He is required to comply with DNA collection and must register as a sex offender. The actor's computers and electronic devices are subject to random searches. He must report all of the online accounts he uses for communications, including email and social media. As part of the plea deal, Westmoreland is prohibited from contact with minors without adult supervision.

On December 13, 2018, Westmoreland – who portrayed a grandfather on the Disney Channel sitcom "Andi Mack" – allegedly met a 13-year-old boy on Grindr – the self-described "world's largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people." Westmoreland reportedly shared explicit photos with the teen on the LGBTQ hook-up app.

Westmoreland, 52, was actually communicating to a Grindr profile operated by a police detective in Salt Lake City – where the Disney Channel show is filmed, according to prosecutors.

Westmoreland took a ridesharing service to meet the minor and then take him back to his hotel room, according to court documents. However, police arrested the Disney Channel actor when he attempted to meet the 13-year-old.

The actor was taken into custody by the Salt Lake City Police Department and FBI Child Exploitation Task Force.

"Two novelty sex toys were seized from the hotel room," the Daily Mail reported, and added, "According to police he 'admitted to sending nude photos, and that the male who he was speaking with told him he was 13-years-old."

Westmoreland's lawyer told TMZ that the actor was using Grindr, but believed he was roleplaying with an adult online.

The Disney Channel fired Westmoreland immediately after his arrest. He had appeared in 38 episodes of "Andi Mack."

“Stoney Westmoreland, an actor working on the series 'Andi Mack,' was arrested in Salt Lake City today,” Disney Channel said in 2018. “Given the nature of the charges and our responsibility for the welfare of employed minors, we have released him from his recurring role and he will not be returning to work on the series which wraps production on its third season next week.”

CNN described the "Andi Mack" series as a "coming-of-age comedy-drama following the middle-school adventures of a 13-year-old girl and her friends."

Westmoreland had also appeared in other notable TV shows such as "Breaking Bad," "Better Call Saul," "NCIS," and "Scandal."

Illegal alien child sex offender deported 10 times in the last 2 years arrested again in Texas



The arrests of two illegal alien sex offenders at the U.S.-Mexico border this week once again spotlighted the brokenness of the country's immigration enforcement system under President Joe Biden.

In a news release Tuesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that agents in the Del Rio Sector apprehended two Mexican nationals for illegally entering the country with past sex abuse convictions — one of whom has been deported a whopping 10 times in the last two years.

Humberto Alvarez-Peralta, 42, was reportedly picked up by agents shortly after crossing the border on April 13. A subsequent biometric background investigation revealed that he had been convicted on a second-degree felony charge of sexual assault of a child in Liberty, Texas, in 1997.

Despite being repeatedly apprehended and removed from the U.S., Alvarez-Peralta continued to re-enter the country seemingly without consequence. He was most recently deported in March 2022, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Another illegal alien sex offender — 63-year-old Hipolito Hernandez-Acosta — was reportedly apprehended on April 14 shortly after illegally entering the country. During processing, it was revealed that Hernandez-Acosta has a lengthy criminal record that includes a felony conviction for statutory rape in Georgia in 1995.

He, too, had been ordered for removal from the country on three separate occasions.

Under U.S. law, illegal alien convicted felons with prior removals can be prosecuted for re-entry after deportation, a charge that carries a possible sentence of 20 years in prison. However, it appears that federal authorities refrained from taking such an action against Alvarez-Peralta and Hernandez-Acosta until now.

TheBlaze reached out to the Department of Homeland Security seeking answers as to why. This article will be updated if a response is offered.

In its news release, CBP noted that the apprehension of sex offenders at the U.S.-Mexico border has been on the rise of late, especially in the Del Rio Sector.

Earlier in the month, agents arrested two other border-crossers with past sex offense convictions. Prior to that, between October 2021 and March 2022, agents arrested 19 sex offenders in that region alone.

During that same time period, Del Rio agents have reportedly encountered more than 660 criminal migrants in total.

Yet even as the situation on the border continues to deteriorate, the Biden administration last week moved to end Title 42 — a Trump-era rule that allows border agents to turn away illegal immigrants over COVID-19 health concerns. The policy change is expected to result in a manifold increase of illegal border crossings.