Another Foreigner Captured With Underage Girl In Medellín: Brandon Seth Wood

50-year old US citizen Brandon Seth Wood was captured by Colombian National Police last week with a 15-year-old girl in a building in the Aranjuez neighborhood of Medellín, Colombia. According to Colombia’s attorney general, the evidence was enough that Wood is being held without bond. Prosecutors say that Wood contacted the girl using social media to arrange to pay for sex, and that Wood also offered the girl narcotics.

#Medellín | Envían a la cárcel a un ciudadano estadounidense identificado como Brandon Seth Wood, por el delito de demanda de explotación sexual comercial con un menor de edad.

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Finance Colombia was able to determine that a US citizen with the same name, and with ties to both Clearwater, Florida and Ohio had his license to practice as a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) revoked in 2020 due to cocaine abuse (Florida case 201626767, Department of health license CH9075), though at time of publication it is inconclusive whether this is the same individual.

Medellín’s Mayor Federico “Fico” Gutierrez is leading a campaign to crack down on sex tourism and vice in Colombia’s second largest city, and in the first four months of 2024 there have been many arrests, including at least nine high-profile arrest of foreign sex-tourists. While prostitution is not criminalized in Colombia, organizing prostitution, or “pimping” is illegal, and sexual contact with minors is strictly prohibited and subject to severe punishment.