Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two Mexican nationals, previously convicted for sexual offenses, during separate incidents Feb. 27 as they attempted to enter the United States illegally.
The first apprehension occurred when agents from the Three Points sub-station apprehended three individuals near San Miguel, Arizona, on the Tohono O’odham Nation. During processing, agents conducting record checks learned of one man’s previous conviction for statutory rape (no force) and two counts of rape (strong-arm) in Ventura County, California, for which he was sentenced to 19 years in prison.
Agents arrested the second man near Nogales, Arizona, who was among a group of five undocumented migrants. Agents conducted record checks on each person and learned that one man was previously convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14 in Visalia, California, and sentenced to six years in prison.
Sex offenders pose a threat to persons with whom they are traveling, people with whom they are detained, communities that they traverse and also communities where they ultimately take up residence. Every effort is made to ensure previously deported criminal aliens are arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Every subject arrested by the Border Patrol undergoes a comprehensive criminal and immigration history check using biometrics.