Rodriguez who was indicted by the feds on February 9. 2022 for attempting to entice an individual to travel in foreign commerce to engage in prostitution has been sentenced to 6 years in a federal prison.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
September 24, 2022
Laredo, Texas - On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Alfred H. Bennett in Houston sentenced former Webb County Police Constable Rodolfo "Rudy" Rodriguez Jr., 62, to 6 years in a federal prison with condition of serving 12 months and a day in prison and five years of extended supervision, according to federal court case records. Rodriguez was also ordered not to have contact with the victim under a guilty plead agreement.
Rodriguez remains free on bail and must surrender at the Federal Bureau of Prisons at a date to be determined later.
Rodriguez pleaded guilty as a result of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas to one count of attempted attempting to entice an individual to travel in foreign commerce to engage in prostitution.
According to the federal indictment Rodriguez engaged in coercion and enticement of an individual for the purpose of foreign commerce in prostitution activities (from Mexico to the U.S.) between June 1 and September 26, 2019 violating Section 43.02(b) of the Texas Penal Code.
Rodriguez had been a Webb County Police Constable in Laredo, Texas in Precinct 1 for at least 17 years and won reelection in 2020 with 57% of the vote.
The Webb County Commission accepted Rodriguez's resignation on March 28.
A school building in the Laredo Independent School District was named after Rodriguez for his years of service as a Texas Constable, but the school board later decided to remove his name from the school police safety building after he was indicted by the feds.
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