I found another article, regarding the law enforcement undercover officer who originally caught him.
https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/wyckoff/police-fire/nj-prison-guard-from-lodi-who-thought-he-was-pursuing-girl-8-gets-five-years-in-fed-pen/744660/
“The mother actually was a role-playing investigator from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.
The undercover investigator had responded to a Craigslist ad posted by Salamak, a criminal complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark alleges.”
FTA “Stephen Salamak, 39, must serve the full term handed down Thursday in U.S. District Court in Newark because there is no parole in the FEDERAL prison system.” My emphasis added.
Why was it charged at the Federal Level when the County Prosecutor’s office found him?
The article mentions this, “Carpenito credited special agents of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with the investigation leading to the plea secured by Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Alfonzo Walsman, chief of his Public Protection Unit in Newark.”
post above considered whether ICE & DHS was involved because perp was illegal; rather, I now think, it’s because it’s a human trafficking unit that is overseeing + coordinating + following up on other cases. I like that these threads already caught it. NOTE it also appears, from a web search on the image name, that is the same image we saw before, too.