“The FBI arrested an Anchorage man today in Juneau after a federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment charging him with sex trafficking children, sexual exploitation of children-production of child pornography, coercion and enticement of children and receipt of child pornography.”

“According to public court documents, Craig Scott Valdez, 36, used the popular social media application Snapchat to identify, groom and entice juvenile females in Alaska for the purposes of sexual exploitation. The indictment charges this conduct in relation to one minor victim from an incident occurring in October 2025, but Valdez is believed to have victimized or attempted to victimize other juveniles in Anchorage and Juneau. Valdez is a current state employee working in Anchorage and Juneau,” says the Alaska US Attorney’s Office in a Friday statement.

Now to be fair, the DOJ press releases have always gone out of their way to avoid naming political figures and their parties and it’s no different these days – even if the department is going out of their way to be decidedly less balanced in which political figures they prosecute (or or incompetently attempt to) and which ones they don’t. Still, the “state employee” thing makes it sound like this asshole works on a highway construction crew or as an accountant for Fish and Wildlife Department.

Because Valdez, no relation to Exxon (tee-hee-hee), was until Friday in a post a little more important than that. In addition to serving as the chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans (will circle back to that fucking racist nuthouse) was hired as Wasilla State Senator George Rauscher’s in November, curious timing considering the predicate incident to the 36 year-old Valdez’s multicount indictment.

Per Alaska Public Media, it was on October 14, 2025 that Valdez lured a 15 year-old girl he had met on Snapchat to his home in Anchorage “for the purpose of sexually exploiting the child to celebrate his birthday,” according to a detention memo. Then her mom tracked her phone’s location.

The “mother then entered the residence, struck Valdez once in the face and recovered the child, who exhibited signs of extreme drug or alcohol intoxication and had difficulty walking and maintaining consciousness,” the memo says. Cops “responded a short time later, at which point Valdez, puzzlingly, chose to flee from his own residence.” Why he wasn’t arrested was unclear, but the investigation proceeded and police ascertained that it was likely not his first time with her, as other girls had introduced Valdez to her when she was 13 or 14. The FBI stepped in and at this point believe Valdez may have committed sex crimes with 11 or more other victims around the same age.

And yet Rauscher hired him to run his office the next month, evidently sans the kind of due diligence that a connected and currently-serving politician could’ve conducted even if the chunky pedophile hadn’t been arrested or charged yet. At least the Anchorage Young Republicans can more plausibly claim they were unaware of Valdez’s proclivities and state GOP chairwoman Carmela Warfield canned him from the chapter and every other position he held within the party itself.

“The conduct described in court filings demands our deepest outrage. As adults, parents and community members, our first and most fundamental duty is the protection of Alaska’s children. There is absolutely no place in our state for anyone who would harm a child. In light of these serious charges, decisive action has been taken and Mr Valdez has been removed from any and all positions he previously held within the Alaska Republican Party and the Young Republicans,” wrote Warfield of the worst thing to happen to the state’s Young Republicans chapter in about 23 days.

Went looking for a certain October 24th, 2025 Instagram post from AKYR, and came across this emphatic handwashing of the group chat that ended several careers, posted less than 24 hours after the chair of the chapter encompassing the North Star State’s largest city got punched in the face by the mom of a 15 year-old girl he very likely had already statutorily raped. On his birthday.

ANYWAY, this was the one. They deleted it. Because of that second worst thing in the last 23 days.

And no, this guy is no longer the state YR Vice Chair.

Honestly there’s no doing this piece by the Alaska Landmine’s Jeff Landfield any justice by trying to summarize it. Please appreciate this copypasta skim and then click on the link to give them some traffic. Landfield’s January 28 account of meeting Señor Kuznicki really is something to behold:

Landfield isn’t exaggerating. Just one more brief clip:

PLEASE read it and add the Landmine to your bookmarks – they’ll have something deeply reported on Valdez soon no doubt – and stay the fuck away from Young Republicans members.