Arizona border patrol agents arrest migrant Vargas Mendoza, convicted of raping baby

An illegal immigrant with quite a few previous convictions, such as for raping a young kid, was arrested by Border Patrol brokers in Arizona on Tuesday, officers and a report said.

Vargas Mendoza, 33, a Mexican countrywide, was caught around the southern border by brokers with US Customs and Border Protection’s Yuma station, Main Patrol Agent Chris Clem announced Thursday.

Mendoza’s earlier convictions also include possession of a managed lethal material, possession of cannabis for sale and willful cruelty to a kid, in accordance to Clem.

Fox News noted that Mendoza was in the US illegally.

No other details about his arrest was straight away obtainable.

So significantly this fiscal 12 months, CBP agents have arrested 9,381 migrants with criminal data amid a surging quantity of crossings at the US-Mexico border, in accordance to CBP stats. 

More than 2 million migrants have crossed the US border so considerably this 12 months, with an believed 500,000 plus who evaded CBP brokers, Fox News described.

Just this earlier thirty day period, 4 intercourse offenders — which include a rapist and adult males with little one intercourse convictions — have been arrested striving to cross the southern border in Texas. 

Amongst individuals arrested was a Guatemalan nationwide who experienced been charged with lewd and lascivious acts with a baby less than 14 by power. He was sentenced to 22 decades in prison.

The Texas agents also arrested a Salvadoran national who had been convicted for indecent exposure with a little one in Houston in 2016, for which he was sentenced to 10 yrs probation.