Freeman Klopott, The Examiner
2008-06-16 07:00:00.0
Current rank: # 32 of 8,632

WASHINGTON -
An illegal immigrant recently charged in Germantown with burglarizing a dozen homes told police he was doing it to get food for his family, but he’s no Robin Hood, court records show.

Jesus Ivan Arandaluna, 26, has been in trouble with the law before in Montgomery County.

In February 2004, Arandaluna was sentenced to three years of probation for having sex with his then 14-year-old girlfriend, court records show. But before he could be processed by parole, he was deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Now he’s back in jail in Maryland on a spate of burglary charges and court records show that ICE isn’t through with him, either; he’ll likely be deported again.

It’s not clear if Arandaluna actually has any family to support in the area, although he told police when he was arrested last month that he has mouths to feed and couldn’t find work to get the cash.

In August 2004, Arandaluna moved into a Germantown trailer park with his girlfriend. Court records say her father allowed it because she threatened to run away with him, as she had for nearly a month that same summer. Rape charges weren’t pressed against Arandaluna until November, and most were dropped soon after.

Starting in April of this year, Arandaluna popped back on the radar as Montgomery County police investigated burglaries in the posh Milestone apartment complex in Germantown.

Arandaluna was identified by an associate, Santos Perez Sibrian, after Sibrian was arrested. Sibrian had tried to sell a $12,000 watch in an area pawn shop for $1,000, arousing the suspicion of the shop keeper, who came to believe it was stolen, police said.

During the execution of a search warrant on the men’s residences, both located in the same trailer park where Arandaluna had lived with his girlfriend, jewelry was found from what police said could be a dozen homes. Cocaine, cash and other stolen items were found in Sibrian's nearby trailer.

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