Columbia man who faked his death, fled to country of Mexico sentenced 10 years for child porn
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Columbia man who ran away to the country of Mexico and faked his own death has been sentenced for federal child pornography charges.
A press release from the Department of Justice says that Diego Antonio Rafael Camargo-Wasserman, 33, was sentenced in Jefferson City on Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison without parole, along with an additional 10 years of supervised release. He is currently being held at the Cole County Jail.
Camargo-Wasserman pleaded guilty in August to one count of receiving child porn and one count of child porn possession. The release says that the investigation began on July 1, 2010, and Camargo-Wasserman allegedly admitted to using Limewire – a site that was mostly used to illegally download music in the 2000s – in order to download child porn.
Several files of child porn were found on his cellphone, the release says. In 2013, a bail bond agent allegedly gave officials documentation from the country of Mexico that stated Camargo-Wasserman died in 2012, the release says. Federal charges were then dismissed.
However in July 2017, the FBI received information that Camargo-Wasserman was still alive and living in Mexico and charges were filed again the next year, the release says. He was brought to the U.S. in 2024. He is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico, the release says.
