A former substitute teacher accused of using a social media app to meet middle school girls as young as 12 and supplying them with vape pens and marijuana in exchange for sex, reached a plea agreement with the state Monday that includes a minimum 15-year prison sentence.

Enreeka Nalasco, 35, who worked as a substitute teacher at Miami Beach Senior High School almost a decade ago, was sentenced to 25 years in prison and 20 years’ probation, can no longer use social media or contact any of his victims and will have his name entered on the state’s sexual predator website.

He was convicted of two counts of human trafficking and three counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with girls under 16. Both victims were students at Miami Beach’s Nautilus Middle School in 2022 when the crimes were committed.

During Nalasco’s sentencing before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Ellen Sue Venzer Monday, a statement by one of the victims that was read out loud asked that Nalasco remain in prison for the rest of his life.

Then Nalasco apologized to his victims, according to a report from WPLG Channel 10.

“I take accountability and apologize to everyone I hurt,” he said. “I’m sorry. I hope they can forgive me.”

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle chastised Nalasco for trying to lure a pre-teen in his sex-for-drugs scheme.

“Enreeka Nalasco will be unable to exploit again,” the state attorney said.

Nautilus students with drugs spark suspicion

Nalasco’s arrest report said police were alerted to his activities in March 2022 after several Nautilus female students were found on campus with drugs and vapes. The girls said they got the paraphernalia from a man named “Swaggy,” whom they became friendly with on Snapchat.

The girls said Swaggy was willing to supply them with the drugs for sexual favors. In one case, police said Nalasco went to the Miami Beach home of a 13-year-old girl to bring her drugs.

She was later suspended from Nautilus when the drugs were found in her possession on campus. Several other girls — all ranging in age from 11 to 14 — told similar stories.

Some said Nalasco exchanged drugs for kisses.

Police say Nalasco once met a 12-year-old girl in the parking lot of a gas station in Miami Shores who bought a vape cigarette from him. She called Nalasco again two weeks later for another one and when they met, police said, he forced her into the back seat of his car and sexually assaulted her before kicking her out of the vehicle.

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