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By Kelly Tabor

Published: August 8, 2008

Enterprise Police arrested Jorge Romero, 33, late Thursday afternoon on a warrant with five charges.

The charges include two counts of felony first-degree sexual abuse, one count of felony first-degree rape, and two counts of felony first-degree sodomy. Capt. Mike Lolley with the Enterprise Police Department said Romero’s two victims were 6 and 7 years-old.

Romero, who was on probation, was arrested by Enterprise Police investigators Angela Brown and Chris Peterson and is being held without bond at the Coffee County Jail and should appear before the District Court judge today.

Romero, who lives on Highway 27 south in Entreprise, is an illegal immigrant from Mexico City, Mexico and works at a local chicken plant. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has been contacted, said Capt. Mike Lolley.

Romero was convicted in 2005 of child abuse and served just fifteen days in jail on a one year and one day sentence, said Sgt Eva Love of the Coffee County Jail.

“The INS put a detainer on him, meaning ‘hold him until we get there’,â€