East County Hall of Justice — Reported Venue for Alameda County Cases
A 32-year-old Daly City man has been sentenced to four years of probation and ordered to register as a sex offender after he drove to Dublin last year to meet someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl but who was actually an undercover FBI agent. Ricardo Jimenez pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of false imprisonment, closing out a case that began with a felony count carrying far steeper potential prison time.
According to the East Bay Times, the undercover agent had created a fake social media profile using a child’s picture and posed online as a teenage girl. Jimenez was told the purported girl was 13, and at one point texted, “I don’t want to get in intoble (sic),” before responding, “damn that’s young i don’t want to get intoble (sic).” Despite those messages, he was arrested in September 2025 after allegedly driving to Dublin to meet her in person.
From Felony Charge to Reduced Plea
Jimenez was originally charged with arranging to meet a minor, an offense under California Penal Code Section 288.4(b) that can carry a state prison sentence of two, three, or four years when a defendant travels to the agreed meeting place near the arranged time, according to Cron Israels and Stark. The statute is classified as a wobbler, meaning prosecutors had discretion to file the case as either a misdemeanor or a felony, per the Second Chances Law firm…