Angel Victor Raschke Sambrano jail booking photo. (Photo: Cache County Jail)
LOGAN — A 27-year-old Logan man is headed to prison for chatting and travelling to have sex with an undercover police officer, who was posing as a 13-year-old girl. Angel Victor Raschke Sambrano said he was sorry for what he did, blaming his actions on an addiction to methamphetamines.
Sambrano was sentenced Tuesday morning in 1st District Court. He previously pleaded guilty to attempted sodomy on a child, a first-degree felony; enticing a minor by internet, a second-degree felony; and dealing in materials harmful to a minor, a third-degree felony.
In August, Sambrano contacted the undercover officer on a website where users can chat with others close by. He immediately asked if the officer wanted to have sex.
The officer was posing as a teenage girl and explained that she was in school at the time.
Sambrano expressed trepidation at first but then proceeded to engage in a sexually explicit conversation with the officer. He suggested meeting in a public place and then going to his apartment near the Cache Valley Mall.
As the chats continued, Sambrano sent an inappropriate photo of himself. He asked the undercover officer to meet him at a location in Logan.
At the determined location and time, he arrived and was taken into custody by waiting police. He later admitted to being the person who performed the chats and explained that he had been extremely lonely.
During Monday’s sentencing, defense attorney Cameron Cox said Sambrano had undergone a psycho-sexual evaluation since being arrested. The assessment determined the defendant’s actions were because of his drug addiction and not an attraction to children.
Sambrano said he felt terrible for what he did. He described how his addiction put him in a very dark place.
Judge Spencer Walsh sentenced Sambrano to a term of three-years-to-life in prison. He warned the defendant to guard himself from meth, the internet and being around children.