North Las Vegas man gets prison in underage sex case

Darryl Walizer is 43, and he has a thing for underage girls.

He has committed sex offenses in Ohio, Virginia and Nevada.

But on Friday, a federal judge in Las Vegas made sure he will be an elderly man before he has the chance to victimize teenage girls again.

“I don’t know what else can be done to deter you other than to incapacitate you,” U.S. District Judge Philip Pro told the defendant.

The judge then sentenced Walizer to 37 years in prison.

Court records show that Walizer has a 2004 conviction in Ohio for importuning and a 2005 conviction in Virginia for soliciting a juvenile.

He is required to register as a sex offender.

In the Ohio case, Walizer had entered a Yahoo chat room titled “I love older men best.” While in the chat room, he contacted a person he believed was a 14-year-old girl and began speaking to her in sexually graphic terms. He also talked about his desire to meet her for sex.

Walizer drove 422 miles from his home in Maryland to meet the girl and was arrested when he arrived. He had brought condoms, sexual paraphernalia, a bottle of Jack Daniels and a camera.

The Virginia conviction stemmed from an 18-month sexual relationship Walizer had with an underage girl.

He traveled from his home in Maryland to meet a 17-year-old girl in Virginia and had sex with her on three occasions. Authorities found online chats with the victim, as well as images of child pornography, on Walizer’s computer.

After Walizer’s release from prison in Ohio, he moved to North Las Vegas to live with his brother. He used his brother’s computer to communicate with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl named Alecia from Texas. In actuality, “Alecia” was a police detective from Garland, Texas.

During online chats, Walizer began speaking about engaging in sexual acts with Alecia. He planned to meet her in March 2010 at McCarran International Airport, but when he came to meet her arriving plane, he was arrested.

Authorities later learned that, while Walizer was speaking with Alecia and grooming her to engage in sexual acts, he also was chatting with other people in Utah who he believed were minors.

“Defendant’s history clearly shows that he is sexually attracted to minor girls, and that he will use any means to meet these girls and engage in sexual acts with them,” prosecutors wrote in one court document. “Even his prior convictions did not deter him from seeking out at least nine separate minors online, and from grooming them to engage in sexual acts with him.”

A federal jury in Las Vegas convicted Walizer in February of coercion and enticement of a minor.

As part of the sentence, Pro ordered lifetime supervision for Walizer after his release from prison. “I view you as a danger to society,” the judge said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy Koppe said Walizer has shown no remorse.

“He refuses to admit or accept responsibility, which makes him even more dangerous,” the prosecutor said.

According to the defendant’s sentencing memorandum, Walizer once had a promising career in the military. Walizer concedes his prior record is troubling.

“But also revealed is the troubling nature of the crime itself and the neurology involved,” Assistant Federal Public Defender Jason Carr wrote in the memorandum. “Much like the drug addict who throws his life away for a chemical that has hijacked the mind, a sex addict demonstrates a remarkable identity of physiology and addiction.”