Border Patrol agents arrest child sex offender in group of 30 immigrants in the country illegally
Eril Lainez-Corea, a 29-year old Honduran national had been arrested in 2018, convicted of Sexual Offense Against a Child-Fondling in Wauseon, Ohio.
Credit: US Customs and Border Protection Author: Haley Williams Updated: 1:02 PM CST February 5, 2021
LAREDO, Texas A child sex offender in the US illegally has been arrested, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a news release.
On Feb. 3, a CBP unmanned aircraft spotted a large group of people walking in the brush southwest of Hebbronville.
Credit: US Customs and Border Protection
Agents, along with Laredo Sector Horse Patrol Unit, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Air Asset, and a CBP Air Unit, responded and caught 30 individuals all found to be in the country illegally. They were all determined to be from the countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Border Patrol agents thwart human smuggling attempt, arrest two child sex offenders in traffic stop near Freer
Both child sex offenders are being held by the U.S. Border Patrol pending prosecution of their immigration violations.
Credit: US Customs and Border Protection Author: Haley Williams Updated: 9:23 PM CST January 14, 2021
FREER, Texas Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents from the Freer station recently stopped a human smuggling attempt and arrested two child sex offenders in the same traffic stop, a press release from US Customs and Border Protection.
Agents pulled over a commercial truck that was going down Highway 59 near Freer and found 119 people being smuggled in the back, officials said.