Norberto Avalos

> “I know how to do it: Take it out on time.”
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**Norberto Avalos** is a potential predator involved in the Petaluma, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is best known for admitting to being a convicted felon, spending five years in jail for Armed Robbery.

## Biography

Avalos was formerly a permanent resident of the U.S. who had obtained citizenship in 1990. Following his aforementioned Armed Robbery conviction, he was deported back to Mexico in 2001, but illegally re-entered the U.S. in 2004 and worked in construction. He began chatting with a girl he believed to be thirteen named “Willow” while Avalos himself was 41 in 2006. Norberto would lie about his age, saying he was 28. He first tries to act like he’s not interested in her because of her age, but soon dropped this ruse to try to romance the decoy, saying he could make a girl “walk on clouds” when making love, planning to make the girl orgasm multiple times, and calling her “his princess”. He would chat with Willow over the course of three days and making a date to meet, promising to cook for her, bring a webcam for her, a laptop with porn, and condoms, but had no plans to use them because he wanted to pull out instead.

Avalos drove to the house, IMing the decoy via video and text while on his way there. He showed up in the backyard with bags of groceries along with the webcam, chuckling to the decoy about what he had brought over when Chris Hansen comes out and confronts him. Norberto shakes his hand and Hansen gets down to business asking about the webcam he brought, Norberto thinks Hansen is the girl’s father, saying he brought it for his daughter in order to see her face. Hansen also gets Norberto to cop to bringing condoms, but tries to play it off by saying he always carries them and he’d never have sex with someone her age. Hansen once again counters with the things he said in chat about making the girl orgasm and other sexual references to which Norberto said he had been drinking when he typed those things and he really didn’t mean them. Finally, Hansen reveals that Norberto has walked into his investigation which has him apologetic, but still maintains he wouldn’t do anything with a girl her age and wouldn’t seduce her in person, despite what he typed online. Norberto grabs his groceries and starts to leave when he is ambushed in the garage and arrested by Petaluma Police.

During his questioning, Norberto continued to deny his intentions and when questioned on his laptop with porn on it, he slips a little when the officer says they would have ended up having sex if the watched the porn. Norberto replies, “Well yeah, probably…” but quickly backtracks asking the officer how he could do that to a kid.

Avalos would be found guilty of Attempted Lewd and Lascivious Contact With a Minor and sentenced to three years in prison. Additionally, he was charged for entering the country illegally, received an additional three years and ten months, and was deported once again upon completion of his sentence.

## Trivia

* Avalos was married with two children and a college student at the time he committed Armed Robbery with his brother. It’s unknown if his wife had stood by him through either arrest.
* While driving to the sting house, Avalos showed the decoy he was driving in excess of 100 mph to get there via webcam.
* His uncle, who initially brought him the the United States, loaned Norberto money to start an auto shop in Mexico.

## References

1. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-armed-robber-predator-got-deported.html
2. ↑ https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/08/31/agencies-arrest-29-predator-suspects/
3. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?archive=sebastian\_for\_u
4. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=sebastian\_for\_u