Ex-FBI Agent Lured Women on False Promise of Modeling Opportunities Before Sexually Assaulting Them at His Tattoo Shop By Nicole Acosta

A former FBI agent will spend decades behind bars for luring multiple women to his Maryland tattoo shop under the guise of modeling opportunities and sexually assaulting them.

Eduardo Valdivia, 41, of Gaithersburg, Md., was sentenced to 80 years in prison, with 20 years suspended, resulting in a 60 year prison term on Oct. 14, the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office said in a press release shared with PEOPLE.

Valdivia was found guilty in July of six counts of second-degree rape and two counts of fourth-degree sex offense for sexually assaulting three women, per the release. He had worked as Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI for over a decade at the time of his November 2024 arrest.

Prosecutors said Valdivia used multiple aliases, including “Lalo Brown” and “L. Boogie,” to lure the women with false promises of modeling opportunities at multiple locations, including his tattoo studio, DC Fine Line Tattoos, in Gaithersburg.

Two of the victims, both of whom were women in their early 20s, told investigators they were raped at the tattoo studio, per the release. One also said a rape occurred at a nearby hotel.

After Valdivia’s arrest, a third woman told authorities she had also been raped by Valdivia at a tattoo shop in Potomac in October 2022 when she was 18, according to prosecutors.

To keep up the ruse, Valdivia also used the alias “Dr. Tiffany Kim,” pretending to be a female psychologist and also the CEO of a “profitable and well-connected modeling agency” in emails sent to two of the victims, prosecutors said.

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Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy spoke to reporters after the sentencing hearing, saying this was “a crime that used maximum amounts of manipulation and deception.”

“He was a trained FBI agent,” McCarthy said. “He was trained to go undercover. He learned deception techniques. He learned how to take on different identities and in this particular case, he took on multiple identities to ingratiate himself to these young girls who were all of his victims.”

McCarthy also praised the three women for coming forward and testifying against Valdivia in court.