ICE HSI Seattle investigation leads to 27-year prison sentence for child sexual predator

Craig pleaded guilty to two counts of enticement and attempted enticement of a child and one count of possession of child sexual abuse images. Judge Mary Katherine Dimke ordered him to be placed on lifetime supervised release following his lengthy prison term. He was sentenced on June 26 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.

The sexual predator targeted his victims online from early 2022 until his June 2025 arrest. Acting ICE Director David Venturella said Craig coerced two girls into providing him with sexually explicit videos and images.

"He enticed one of the children by offering her money via gift cards and online payments. This is an adult who knew the girls were just kids — but he still intended to elicit sexual material from them," said Venturella in a press release. "I'm incredibly proud of the Homeland Security Investigations special agents who invested their time and effort into this case to bring some measure of justice to these young girls and their families."

An HSI task force, comprised of local and federal law enforcement agencies, executed a search warrant at Craig's home and discovered thousands of additional files of child sexual abuse material, according to the investigation.

Judge Dimke took Craig's criminal history into account when imposing his sentence, adding aggravated-offender enhancements. In 2017, he was convicted of encouraging child abuse in the second degree, sexual abuse in the third degree, and contributing to the sexual delinquency of a child in the Clackamas County Superior Court in Oregon.

Federal investigators discovered child abuse images from his 2017 case and a child he had personally victimized on his computer, authorities said.

"Mr. Craig was fully aware that his actions were not just extremely immoral, but illegal as well," said acting HSI Seattle Special Agent in Charge April Miller. "This sentence will keep this predator off the streets and keep our children safer. HSI will continue to investigate these crimes against children. We owe our communities nothing less."

First Assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington added in a press release: "Removing this defendant from our community and ensuring he can't have access to children is the only way to ensure its protection. Our office is committed to hunting down these offenders and holding them accountable."

HSI is ICE's investigative branch that handles a wide range of matters outside of immigration. Under President Donald Trump's term, HSI has repeatedly put sex and human traffickers, child predators, fraudsters, and leftist Antifa extremists behind bars.

The Klickitat County Sheriff's Department assisted HSI Seattle with the investigation. This case was prosecuted by Assistant US Attorney Michael Murphy.