Men hit with federal charges after East Bay child exploitation stings

Two men are facing federal charges over conversations they allegedly had with undercover police over their lewd interest in minors court records show In Sacramento federal prosecutors have charged -year-old Anthony Mozingo of Elk Grove with attempted enticement of a minor In Oakland prosecutors have charged -year-old Erik Contreras with possession of child pornography The cases are from separate undercover investigations In Mozingo s matter police in Brentwood posed as a -year-old girl and talked to Mozingo on a chat application according to the criminal complaint In Contreras an officer posed as a person interested in child pornography functionaries revealed Mozingo allegedly described the purported girl your sic hot for and that he desired to teach her sexual things before describing them in detail After showing up in Brentwood to meet the girl and being arrested he allegedly admitted he intended to sexually abuse her the complaint commented Mozingo also allegedly described the officer he had previously had sex with a -year-old the complaint alleges Contreras allegedly sent the undercover officer a picture of his wife a -year-old girl and another woman and stated the two women were high at the time and that he watched them bathing A search of his laptop yieled image files and video files that were consistent with child pornography the complaint alleges including one particularly horrifying video of an infant being hung upside-down and sexually abused Contreras was ordered disclosed from jail at his first appearance in front of U S Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu At Mozingo s first court appearance Chief U S Magistrate Judge Carolyn Delaney ordered Mozingo detained while the matter is pending court records show