FBI agent found guilty of raping 3 clients in his secret tattoo parlors
What none of the women knew was that Lalo Brown was really FBI Agent Eduardo Valdivia. And what a jury in Montgomery County concluded Friday after an eight-day trial was that Valdivia raped all three of them inside his tattoo parlors.
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