Border Patrol agents arrest convicted sex offender at Highway 86 checkpoint





Release Date
Tue, 12/12/2023


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INDIO, Calif.- El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported Guatemalan citizen with a rape conviction at the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint last Monday night.

At approximately 11:20 p.m., on December 4, 2023, a red SUV approached the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint containing one driver and one passenger. Agents referred the vehicle to secondary inspection for further investigation when the adult male passenger raised the agents’ suspicion.

Agents used law enforcement databases to identify the passenger as a Guatemalan citizen illegally present in the U.S.

Additional records revealed the man was convicted of child rape in 2014 in Indianapolis.

He was subsequently deported in 2017.

The subject was arrested again in June 2023 attempting to illegally enter the U.S. as part of a maritime smuggling event near San Clemente, California. At that time, he was sentenced to six months incarceration for illegal re-entry of a convicted felon.


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