WINONA, Minn. – A Lewiston man serving 27 years in federal prison for sex crimes has been returned to Winona County custody, albeit only for a day or two. Valentin Silva Quintana, now 31, was booked into the local jail for a court hearing on a Lewiston rape charge. It was expected that a Winona County judge would dismiss the rape charge, allowing the presumptive penalties to be subsumed into the 27-year federal sentence. In February a federal jury convicted Quintana of soliciting 60 teen-age girls online for lewd self-photos and then blackmailing them.
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