Two Previously Deported Sex Offenders Arrested in Arizona near Border

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two previously deported sex offenders within hours of each other on Tuesday. The arrests occurred after the two men illegally crossed near Sasabe and Amando, Arizona.

Shortly after midnight on Tuesday morning, Tucson Sector agents arrested 27-year-old Andres Lopez-Rosales near Amado. The agents transported him to the Border Patrol station for processing and a biometric background investigation, according to information obtained from Tucson Sector officials.

During processing, the agents learned that a Washington County, Utah, court convicted the man in 2016 for Sexual Battery. The court sentenced Lopez-Rosales to 364 days in jail and 18 months probation. Following his release from jail, immigration officers processed him for removal to Mexico.

About four hours later, agents patrolling near Sasabe arrested 29-year-old Ernesto Maldonado Alvarado for illegally crossing the border from Mexico. The agents transported him to the Border Patrol station for processing and a records check, officials reported.

The records check revealed that Maldonado Alvarado has an extensive criminal history. In 2014, a court in Santa Clara County, California, convicted the Mexican national for Sex with a Minor.  The court sentenced him to 364 days in jail and three years probation.

The court convicted him again in 2017 for the same offense. Following his conviction, the court sentenced Maldonado Alvarado to two years in a California prison.

As both men were illegally present in the U.S., they now face federal felony charges for illegal re-entry after removal as sex offenders. If convicted on the charges, they could each face up to 20 years in federal prison.

During the first five months of Fiscal Year 2020, Border Patrol agents arrested 1,294 criminal aliens who illegally re-entered the U.S., officials stated. Every migrant arrested by Border Patrol is subjected to a biometric background and criminal records check.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.