CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A 47-year-old man was sentenced to an eight-year prison term in Nueces County Thursday morning after violating conditions of probation for an online solicitation of a minor case from October of 2021.
A motion to revoke probation was filed Jan. 30, 2024, after registered sex offender Max Estrada was found to have exchanged hundreds of sexually explicit chat messages, pictures and videos with social media users over a two-week period from December 27, 2023, to January 11, 2024, just five months into his ten-year probation period.
Estrada was expected to serve a ten-year probation sentence after he direct messaged an undercover officer with CCPD's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force on Oct. 18, 2021, on a lesser-known social media site. Detectives from the task force, the OCU and special units with Homeland Security were working in an undercover capacity as minor children aged 13-15. On Oct. 19, Estrada stated that he wanted to meet the child to engage in sex with her, despite saying that he was 'old enough to be her dad.'
Instead, of meeting the underaged teen, he met with CCPD detectives. Estrada admitted to sending the messages and he was arrested.
On Thursday, three years after the initial crime, he again plead guilty- this time to violating his probation for that October 2021 incident as part of a plea bargain. Estrada was originally granted a deferred adjudication for the solicitation of a minor charge. The deferred judgment meant the registered sex offender was ordered to serve the probationary period, which prohibited him from having access to electronic devices with access to the internet, exchanging graphic or obscene sexual messages, downloading sexually explicit media and entering establishments that alcohol-based establishments. The ten-year probation period began August 7, 2023.
Estrada violated the following terms of his probation, as well as others:
- 324 counts of having access to or participating in online chat rooms, social media accounts, or sending/receiving e-mail messages to any person without written permission of the court.
- 2 counts having access to an electronic device with access to internet.
- 4 counts possession of obscene material that depicts sexually explicit acts.
- 9 counts viewing, receiving, downloading, transmitting or possessing obscene or sexually explicit information on a computer.
- 1 count not having internet monitoring system RemoteCOM installed on electronic device.
He also failed to attend sex offender treatment classes and is said to have acted disrespectfully and obscenely toward his Community Service Officer, both violations of his probation.
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