3 immigrants with criminal histories arrested

Posted: Aug 09, 2011 6:05 PM EDT Updated: Aug 09, 2011 6:05 PM EDT

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Border agents have arrested three illegal immigrants with serious criminal histories after finding them walking in the Arizona desert.

The Border Patrol said Tuesday that Casa Grande agents patrolling near Three Points, 25 miles southwest of Tucson, found 2 of the men around 2:45 p.m. Monday.

1 of them, a 31-year-old from Tamaulipas (tom-ow-LEE'-pahs) in northeastern Mexico, was convicted of first-degree sodomy and sexual abuse in Fayette County, Ky. last year and served under a year in prison.

The other man, a 39-year-old from Tamaulipas, was arrested in October in Baton Rouge, La. on an attempted second-degree murder charge that was dropped because prosecutors later couldn't find the victim.

Also Monday, a 25-year-old man from Agua Prieta in the northern Mexican state of Sonora was found about a mile north of the border near Douglas.

He had served about six years in prison after the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office arrested him in 2003 for unlawful use of means of transportation.

All three men were re-arrested on charges of illegal entry or re-entry into the U.S.

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