13 things about Gaithersburg, Maryland’s Eduardo Valdivia

Eduardo “Eddie” Valdivia is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent from Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. Before joining the FBI, he served with the Americorp‘s National Service Program and Children’s Health Initiative and worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a public health analyst and a project officer.

BIOGRAPHY

In April 2025, Valdivia turned 41. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He attended the University of California in Oakland, Alameda County, California and George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA.
2. Aside from Gaithersburg, he has lived in other parts of Maryland including Darnestown.
3. Aside from Maryland, he has lived in other states of the U.S. including Arizona, California, Florida and Virginia.
4. He previously lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.
5. In 2007, he graduated from the University of California with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish literature with a minor in biological sciences.
6. In 2009, he graduated from George Washington University with a master’s degree in public health.
7. In 2011, he joined the FBI.
8. In 2019, he was promoted to supervisory special agent at the FBI headquarters. His duty was to provide operational guidance and programmatic oversight of investigations into racially motivated and anti-government extremists.
9. He acted in self-defense when he shot Steven Slaughter, then 28, in 2020, according to his defense attorney Robert C. Bonsib.
10. In 2021, he was charged with attempted second-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment and felony use of a firearm.
11. In 2022, he was found not guilty of the charges filed against him in 2021.
12. In 2024, he was accused of sexually assaulting two women and was arrested.
13. In 2025, he was sentenced to 60 years in prison.

TIMELINE

The two women who accused Valdivia of sexual assault in 2024 were in their early 20s. He used multiple aliases including Lalo Brown and L. Boogie to lure them with false promises of modeling opportunities at multiple locations including DC Fine Line Tattoos, his tattoo studio in Gaithersburg.

2020

• On December 15, 2020, he was on a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) train on his way to work when he shot Slaughter, a fellow passenger who was accused of attacking and threatening to kill somebody at a Metro station in 2019. Slaughter approached him and asked him for money while they were on a train approaching the Medical Center Station in Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland. Slaughter ultimately survived.

2021

• In May 2021, a grand jury indicted him on charges of attempted second-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment and felony use of a firearm.
• On June 1, 2021, he turned himself in and was booked into Montgomery County Detention Center in Rockville, Montgomery County. Wearing a blue button-up T-shirt, he appeared by video in Montgomery County Circuit Court before Judge Joan Ryon, who agreed to release him on personal recognizance.

2022

• In October 2022, he allegedly raped a woman, then 18, at a tattoo shop in Potomac, Montgomery County.
• On December 2, 2022, he was acquitted of the charges filed against him after he shot Slaughter.

2024

• In May 2024, he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman inside DC Fine Line Tattoos after luring her there under the guise of modeling opportunities with Exeter Models.
• In September 2024, he allegedly sexually assaulted another woman inside DC Fine Line Tattoos after luring her there under the guise of modeling opportunities with Exeter Models.
• On November 25, 2024, the Montgomery County Department of Police arrested him in Maryland on charges of sexually assaulting two women. After his initial court appearance that day, he was ordered held in custody.

2025

• In July 2025, he was found guilty of two counts of fourth-degree sex offense and six counts of second-degree rape.
• On October 14, 2025, he was sentenced to 80 years in prison with 20 years suspended.