Trevon Nathaniel Langstaff

According to City News Service reports carried by Patch and the Long Beach Post, Trevon Nathaniel Langstaff, 34, of Long Beach, California, was sentenced on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, to eight years in prison in federal court in Los Angeles. He had pleaded guilty to one count of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. A U.S. Attorney's Office release dated October 4, 2024, announcing the plea, says that according to his plea agreement, in late March 2024 Langstaff drove from his Long Beach home to Arizona to pick up a 14-year-old girl. The office says he knew she was 14 and instructed her to pretend to be 18 years old. It says he transported her from Arizona to his home in Long Beach, where he engaged in sexual intercourse with her. The same release says law enforcement found an image on his cellphone, seized on March 26, that appeared to portray two children engaged in sexually explicit activity, and that he had been in federal custody since March 27. The release does not say he was charged or convicted over that image; the judgment records a conviction on one count only. The Reddit connection appears in the plea release and in the news reports. The U.S. Attorney's Office describes the girl as a runaway whom Langstaff met in a Reddit internet forum. The news reports say the two met on a Reddit internet forum about runaways and that a search of phone records revealed numerous contacts between them. The plea release says the FBI and the Long Beach Police Department investigated the case. It also says Langstaff faced a statutory maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison. No Justice Department release on the sentencing was found; the sentence is confirmed by the district court's judgment (No. 2:24-cr-00240) and was reported by City News Service. According to the judgment, filed October 15, 2025, Langstaff pleaded guilty and was convicted of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(b) on count two, and the court committed him to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for 96 months, with 30 years of supervised release and a $100 special assessment; the docket records count one as dismissed on the government's motion. The court docket shows a notice of appeal was filed on October 21, 2025, and the Ninth Circuit assigned the appeal a case number on October 27, 2025; the outcome of the appeal has not been located. None of the sources reviewed names the subreddit or a Reddit username.