EDINBURG, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley arrested three sex offenders and an MS-13 gang member in separate incidents.
Early Monday morning, McAllen agents arrested a group of eight illegal aliens a near Abram, Texas. While processing the group, agents identified a Salvadoran national who admitted to being an active Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member.
That evening, agents working near Roma, Texas, encountered a group of five subjects who illegally crossed the Rio Grande. One of the subjects was later determined to be a United States citizen with an outstanding warrant for aggravated sexual assault of a child. Border Patrol turned the subject over to the Starr County Sheriff’s Office pending extradition to Fort Worth, Texas.
The following day, McAllen agents working near Mission, Texas, arrested a Mexican national whose record checks revealed an arrest and conviction for indecency with a child by sexual contact. The man received five years in prison.
That same day, agents near La Joya, Texas, arrested a Salvadoran man with a previous arrest and conviction for sexual battery in Concord, California.
The Border Patrol is processing the subjects accordingly.
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