To Catch a Predator · Riverside County investigation
Daniel Pulido
Also reported as Danny, daniel_pulido78
Daniel Pulido pleaded guilty to two attempted offenses after the Riverside sting. His initial sentence included 180 days in jail, three years of probation, and lifetime registration.
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- Outcome
- Sentenced
- Evidence
- Attributed reporting
- Jurisdiction
- Riverside County, California
- Encounter
- Not established
- Decoy posed as
- Girl3
- Case number
- Not established
Personal details
- Born
- August 8, 1965
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Height
- 5′7″
- Weight
- 190 lb
- Hair
- Black
- Eyes
- Brown
Charges & sentence
Sentence
180 days in jail, three years of probation, lifetime sex offender registration, and fees and fines.
Attributed to the sources below. Consult the original record for full terms.
Case records
Hansen investigationSentenced
Sentence
180 days in jail, three years of probation, lifetime sex offender registration, and fees and fines.4
Reviewed sting-related legal outcome. Later six-month release-violation term is separate; ambiguous statement about a year served is not combined into an invented total. Initial contact allegation concerned a child under fourteen; narrative expressly reports the amended age-category plea. The oral-copulation count disposition remains unknown.
Supervision proceeding2020 · Sentenced
Aftermath explicitly reports six additional months for breaking release conditions in June 2020. No precise condition, docket or supervision type is established. Ambiguous narrative reference to a year served is not treated as a second imposed sentence or aggregate.
Sources 5
Case narrative
Confrontation with Chris Hansen
Daniel entered the sting operation under the influence of drugs. Del Harvey spoke to Daniel while posing as the teenage girl in a different room. The two share conversation before Chris Hansen entered the room and told Daniel to take a seat. Daniel initially replied, "nothing," but later altered it to, "nothing good," when asked what his plan was. Over the course of the interview, Daniel would cough uncontrollably with every explanation he would give. He asserted that he would not have sex with the girl and would instead warn her about sexual predators who want to exploit young teenagers.
He claimed he wouldn't do it because one of his sixteen year old cousins was raped and murdered after meeting someone online. Daniel insisted he wasn't intending to use them and that he was instead going to give the girl the condoms. Chris eventually had enough of Daniel's lies and told him to tell the truth. Daniel admitted to watching To Catch a Predator and Dateline NBC when Chris questioned if he watched them. The moment the cameras emerged, he decided to leave. Riverside police quickly apprehended Daniel and took him into custody.
Aftermath
Daniel was originally charged with attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under fourteen years of age, attempted harmful matter sent with intent of seduction of a minor, and attempted oral copulation with a minor under fourteen years of age by force or fear, all felonies. His bail was set at $50,000. In 2009, he ended up pleading guilty to felony attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child fourteen or fifteen years of age and offender ten or more years older than victim and felony attempted harmful matter sent with intent of seduction of a minor. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail, three years of probation, registration as a sex offender for life, and had to pay a slew of fees and fines. In June 2020, Daniel got an additional six months in prison for breaking the terms of his release. He was imprisoned for a year for his Riverside charges before being freed on Christmas, and is now registered as an Average Risk sex offender.
Community-written, from the To Catch a Predator Wiki. Not independently verified, and it does not establish charges or court outcomes.
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Media
Sources
- 167: “She's dead” - Daniel telling Chris how old his cousin is. on MegaphonePublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Reviewed publisher title/description names this profile as the subject of the recording.
- 267: “She's dead” - Daniel telling Chris how old his cousin is. on SpotifyPublic episode metadata matches the publisher RSS recording by title, release date and exact enclosure identifier. Reviewed publisher title/description names this profile as the subject of the recording.
- 3Daniel Pulido (community wiki)Attributed community article. Revision date describes the article update, not a court or sting event. Full infobox, narrative sections, references and assets are retained in the private archive.
- 4Daniel Pulido: legal outcome (revision 15701)180 days in jail, three years of probation, lifetime sex offender registration, and fees and fines.
- 5Daniel Pulido: archived criminal-history narrativeAftermath reports a 2009 guilty plea to attempted lewd acts involving a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old and attempted harmful matter, with 180 days jail and three years probation; a separate June 2020 release-violation sanction was six months.