“United States Attorney Roger B Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Basilio Jim Diaz (64, Hernando County) guilty of destruction of evidence and accessing with the intent to view child sexual abuse material. Diaz faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each offense. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 17, 2024. Diaz has also agreed to forfeit his electronic devices which were used in the commission of the offense,” says a DOJ press release.

“According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, on March 9, 2023, the FBI executed a search warrant at Diaz’s home seeking evidence of child exploitation. When the FBI announced their presence, Diaz refused to exit his home. FBI SWAT members used an armored vehicle to break through the front door and obtain a visual inside the home. The SWAT agents also deployed two drones to better assess the situation inside the home. After nearly an hour, Diaz disabled one of the drones and while holding the second drone, the SWAT agents safely entered the home and detained Diaz. A search of the home revealed that Diaz had spent those 45 – 50 minutes destroying evidence. Despite Diaz’s efforts, the FBI used forensic tools to recover thousands of images and videos depicting the child sexual abuse and exploitation of children from Diaz’s laptop. Agents also recovered two child-like sex dolls,” the press release continued with that last awful detail.

What it doesn’t say is that Basilio Diaz is a registered Republican. We got that from a search of VoterRecords.com, which says he’s “affiliated with the Republican Party.” There’s even a red elephant on the page. The age and county match up with the details in the press release.

That’s it. We did our job here, confirming our audience’s biases about boomer-aged Florida men who would possess child pornography and sex dolls the size of children. National Zero 1, MAGA 0.