Venezuelan Man Sentenced for Sex Trafficking of Minors

United States Attorney Lesley A. Woods announced that Eduardo Jose Perdomo, 38, of Venezuela, was sentenced on July 20, 2026, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for sex trafficking of two minors by force, fraud, or coercion. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Perdomo to 240 months' imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After Perdomo's release from prison, he will begin a 5-year term of supervised release. Perdomo entered the United States illegally in 2021. Senior Judge Bataillon ordered Perdomo to pay a total of $5,400 in restitution to the minor victims.

On January 6, 2025, the Omaha Police Department received a report of a theft at an Omaha hotel. Responding officers identified indicia of sex trafficking. The Omaha Police Department-Homeland Security Investigations Human Trafficking Task Force immediately began investigating and recovered two minor females, aged 15 and 16, who had been brought to a hotel in Omaha by Perdomo from out of state to be sold for commercial sex.

Perdomo arranged for co-defendant Alfredo Manuel Zambrano-Hurtado to transport Perdomo and the minor victims to Nebraska. Perdomo agreed with co-defendant Michel Martinez-Gonzalez on a plan to both advertise the minor victims online for commercial sex and both correspond to potential sex buyers. Perdomo also arranged a deal with hotel staff allowing staff to have sex with the minor victims in exchange for allowing them to stay at the hotel and engage in commercial sex sales. The minor victims engaged in sex acts at Perdomo's direction and after buyers paid the minor victims, they would give the money to Perdomo.

This prosecution is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of United States law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. HSTF Omaha comprises agents and officers from HSI, FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service, USPIS, the IRS-Criminal Investigation Division, and assistance of the Omaha Police Department with the prosecution being led by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Nebraska.