35-Year-Old Toa Alta Man Arrested for Child Exploitation, Cyberstalking and Online Threats

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Gabriel Alfonso Núñez-Robles, a 35-year-old from Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, was arrested on criminal charges for child exploitation, cyberstalking and online threats, announced Héctor Ramírez-Carbó, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. On July 7, 2026, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agents arrested Núñez-Robles.

According to court documents, from February 2026 to May 2026, Núñez-Robles knowingly received, distributed and transported child pornography using a cellular phone. Núñez-Robles was also found to possess child pornography material on his cellular device, including child pornography of a prepubescent minor who had not attained 12 years of age.  

Núñez-Robles is further charged with cyberstalking a female minor between the ages of 11 and 16.  He is also charged with cyberstalking an adult female from in or about the year 2016, through April 2026, and sending her a communication via an instant messaging application containing a threat to injure.

Acting U.S. Attorney Héctor Ramírez-Carbó of the District of Puerto Rico; and Carlos R. Goris Special Agent in Charge of the FBI San Juan Field Office made the announcement.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Emelina Agrait-Barreto of the Crimes Against Children, Human Trafficking and Immigration Unit, is prosecuting the case. The FBI is in charge of the investigation.

If convicted for the charges the defendant faces the following penalties: distribution and receipt of child exploitation material and transportation of child exploitation material - a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of five years and a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years; possession of child exploitation material - a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.Cyberstalking carries maximum sentence of five years of imprisonment, and cyberstalking of children, 10 years in prison. Interstate communications – threats, carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years.  All charges of conviction are to be followed by a term of supervised release after imprisonment. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. 

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

An indictment is merely an allegation and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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