Pedrosa pled down to get reduced charges and jail time. He had been looking at twenty years. Source: CBS Miami MIAMI - Two years after his arrest Rene Pedrosa, a former aide to Mayor Francis Suarez on Monday was sentenced in federal court to serve six years in connection with a plea deal related to child pornography charges. According to his attorney Rick Yabor, Pedrosa was ordered to federal prison for his six-year term which will be followed by 15 years of probation after pleading guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography. In exchange for the guilty plea, federal prosecutors agreed to drop several other criminal counts.