Immigration Agents Arrest Sex Offenders, Street Gang Member
Bust Comes One Year After Major Raid In Greeley

POSTED: 3:21 pm MST December 27, 2007
UPDATED: 3:54 pm MST December 27, 2007


GREELEY -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents arrested three illegal immigrants Wednesday in Greeley.

ICE officials said the suspects include two registered sex offenders and a member of a violent street gang.

Officers from Greeley Police Department assisted with the arrests.

The two sex offenders are a 67-year-old man, and his 33-year-old son, both illegal aliens from Mexico.

They have separate and unrelated convictions based on sex offenses with underage girls.

In 1989, the father was convicted in Los Angeles of sexually assaulting his then 12-year-old daughter. He served three years in prison.

His son was convicted in 2003 in Weld County for sexual assault on his 15-year-old girlfriend when he was 27 years old. He received a five-year deferred sentence.

ICE officials said the third suspect is a 24-year-old man from Mexico they say is an active member of the Norteno street gang. It operates in the Greeley area.

Although he is a U.S. permanent resident, his criminal convictions make him eligible for deportation. He has a felony conviction for “menacingâ€