Former FBI Agent Sentenced For Sexually Assaulting 3 Women

GAITHERSBURG, MD — Suspended FBI agent Eduardo Valdivia was sentenced to prison on Tuesday after he was convicted of raping three women at tattoo shops he owned in Gaithersburg and Potomac.

Circuit Court Judge Cheryl McCally ordered Valdivia to serve 80 years in prison, with all but 60 years suspended, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced. She also ordered him to serve five years of supervised probation upon release. Upon his release, he will be required to register as a sex offender for the remainder of his life.

On July 18, a jury convicted Valdivia on six counts of second-degree rape and two counts of fourth-degree sex offense for sexually assaulting the three women.

"He was an FBI agent for over a decade — a supervising agent specially trained in covert surveillance tactics and deception," State's Attorney John McCarthy said of Valdivia in July. "He used all of that training in the course of perpetration of these crimes."

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Valdivia was employed as a supervisory special agent with the FBI for more than a decade when he was arrested in November 2024.

He was charged after two women said they were raped by Valdivia inside DC Fine Line Tattoos, a tattoo studio in the 9800 block of Washingtonian Boulevard in Gaithersburg. Prosecutors said Valdivia offered the victims free tattoos and a chance to become models.

According to Montgomery County police, the first victim came forward in October 2024 and said she was raped by a man she knew as "Lalo Brown." A second victim came forward with a similar claim of sexual assault in November.

Both women told police they were lured to the tattoo studio after they were offered a free tattoo in exchange for a modeling opportunity with Exeter Models. Both victims said they believed they had been communicating with a woman.

According to police, one victim was sexually assaulted by Valdivia during her photo shoot at a Courtyard by Marriott hotel. He then threatened legal action against her if she didn't return for a second photo shoot because she had signed a contract, police said. She returned two weeks later and was sexually assaulted again, according to authorities.

Police said the second victim was sexually assaulted during a similar photo shoot at DC Fine Line Tattoos.

A third victim came forward following Valdivia's arrest. The victim, who was an 18-year-old high school student, made an appointment for a tattoo and received it at Valdivia’s studio in Potomac in August 2022. During a second visit in October 2022, the woman said Valdivia told her she should be topless for the tattoo, and she “became immediately aware of Valdivia’s intention to engage her in sexual contact.”

Prosecutors said Valdivia also used the alias “Dr. Tiffany Kim” in email communications with two of the victims, pretending to be a female psychologist and also the CEO, president and producer of a profitable and well-connected modeling agency.

Valdivia’s attorney, Robert Bonsib, previously said all the encounters were consensual sexual acts.