Translated From: Border Patrol arrests sex offender while trying to enter…
Discovered on: 2022-03-25 00:00:00
United States authorities announced the arrest of a man with a history of sexual assault against a child in the city of Galveston, Texas; who had been deported previously, but was detained with another group of migrants and at the time of starting the processing of him to deport him, his background came to light.
The Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP for its acronym in English) announced that it is a man of Mexican nationality, whose identity was not revealed; establishing that he was detained by agents assigned to the Uvalde station in Texas, which belongs to the Del Rio sector in the same border state.
Through a statement issued by the aforementioned federal agency, it was announced that at 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 22 of the current year, Border Patrol agents responded to a request for assistance at a bus stop. traffic, near Sabinal.
It is detailed that, when the agents arrived at the scene, they identified that it was an incident related to people smuggling and took all the smuggled migrants into custody; transferring them to the station in Eagle Pass.
“During processing, record checks revealed that one of the subjects, a Mexican national, was previously convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child in Galveston and sentenced to five years in prison. He was most recently removed from the United States in January ”, can be read in the aforementioned document.
Federal authorities reported that, as a sex offender, said person faces a charge of re-entry after deportation; which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, as referred to in current legislation on the matter.
Originally posted 2022-04-28 04:55:05.
