Posted: Jun 04, 2013 5:45 PM PST Updated: Jun 04, 2013 5:45 PM PST
By WSLS Staff
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VA -

An illegal immigrant faces up to ten years in prison, after being convicted Tuesday of an attack on a Virginia Tech student from 2012.

According to Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney Mary Pettitt, 24-year-old Arlex Cardenas-Flores was found guilty of felony abduction during a trial in circuit court.

Investigators say early on the day of Friday, June 29, 2012, Cardenas-Flores attacked graduate student Shannon Sweeney on the Henderson Lawn, and tried to force her into a pick-up truck parked nearby.

Officers say the drive of the truck, Felix Ramirez Miranda, saw the attack, got out, and pulled Cardenas-Flores off of Sweeney. This allowed Sweeney to escape.

A witness helped Sweeney and called police.

The Virginia Tech Police Department determined Cardenas-Flores was working on a construction crew at the old Shultz Dining Hall building at the time.

Cardenas-Flores faces sentencing in September.

Pettitt says ICE has filed to have Cardena-Flores deported after he serves his prison sentence.

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