Canóvanas Man Arrested on Federal Child Exploitation Charges
David Ortiz-García faces six counts including production, receipt, transportation, and possession of child pornography.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On September 8, 2026, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Puerto Rico announced the arrest of David Ortiz-García, a 45-year-old man from Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, on federal child exploitation charges. The arrest occurred on August 25, 2026, following a federal grand jury indictment on August 20, 2026, charging Ortiz-García with six counts of production, receipt, transportation, and possession of child exploitation material. As of this announcement, the case is only at the charging stage, and no trial has been held; the charges remain undecided.
Court documents allege that from November 2025 to July 2026, Ortiz-García knowingly possessed and accessed child pornography, including images of toddlers and prepubescent minors. He is also accused of inducing a 3-year-old male minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography in January 2026, and of two additional counts of production involving a prepubescent male minor in February and April 2026. He faces one count each of receipt and transportation of child pornography.
Acting U.S. Attorney Héctor Ramírez-Carbó said, "Those who prey on children will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." HSI San Juan Acting Special Agent in Charge Yariel Ramos noted, "Behind every child exploitation case is a child who has been harmed... Our message is clear: child exploitation is not limited by stereotypes, and neither is our enforcement response."
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daynelle Álvarez-Lora and investigated by the Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force, led by HSI. If convicted, Ortiz-García faces penalties ranging from five years to 30 years in prison, depending on the charge. An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
Was this report accurate and useful?
Sources
Revision history
- Version 18 Sept 2026, 18:54current
First published.
How we work
This site models an investigative reporter rather than a wire desk. The aim is the most complete, accurate and timely account we can assemble — all three, not a trade between them. Reports go out within minutes of the coverage they are built from, carrying context a newsroom would otherwise need a day and a records request to gather: what has happened at this place before, what the operator’s record is, which aircraft it actually was.
Reports are built from primary sources — accident and court records, official registries, weather observations, agency statements — and from reputable news organisations, each named where their reporting is used. Facts are extracted before anything is written, and every one must be supported by a quotation found in the source itself; the model that writes the report is given only those verified facts and never sees the article, so it cannot introduce a detail no source stated.
Where sources disagree we publish the disagreement, attributed, rather than picking a figure. Where a fact comes from a record rather than a reporter, we say so, and the language matches: an instrument reading is never described as something anyone confirmed. Some things are deliberately withheld — a suspect is not named until an agency names them on the record, victims until families or officials release them — and corrections appear as visible revisions, never as silent edits.
None of that makes a report true. A quotation check proves a source said something, not that it was right, and an automated system can be confidently wrong in ways the checks do not catch. If something here is wrong, the feedback above is how it gets found. The full methodology, including what we refuse to publish.