Arizona Man Sentenced Four Years for Traveling Washington to Exploit Fictitious Minor

Steven J. Migdon, a 73-year-old man from Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor after traveling to Washington state. He was arrested in August 2024 following an investigation by the Seattle Police Department and the FBI in which an undercover agent posed as a 13-year-old boy. Migdon communicated with the agent over ten days, sending explicit images of himself and requesting sexually explicit pictures from the fake minor, and planned to meet the 'teen' at a hotel in Everett. Upon his arrest, authorities found that Migdon had sent sexually explicit images to other children and possessed child sexual abuse material on his phone. He was also ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to a victims' fund, register as a sex offender, and serve ten years of supervised release after his prison term. U.S. District Judge Jamal N. Whitehead emphasized the severity of the crimes, highlighting the real abuse represented by the images on Migdon's phone.