Multiple Child Sex Offenders, Gang Members Arrested After Crossing Border into U.S.

Border Patrol agents in multiple southwest border sectors apprehended previously deported child sex offenders and violent gang members.

Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Chris T. Clem tweeted photos of two different child sex offenders after they illegally re-entered the U.S. from Mexico. Agents arrested 57-year-old Domi Gustavo Jimenez Mayorquin, a Mexican national, after he illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Arizona on Saturday night. During a biometric background investigation, the agents discovered that a New York court convicted the man for sexual assault of a child in 1995.

#USBP agents arrested a sex offender Saturday night after he illegally entered the U.S. from Mex. Domi Gustavo Jimenez Mayorquin, a 57-year-old Mexican national, was arrested by #YPD and convicted of sexual assault of a child in 1995. #BorderSecurity #NationalSecurity pic.twitter.com/rCRi5WLH6q

— Chief Patrol Agent Chris T. Clem (@USBPChiefYUM) May 3, 2022

A few days earlier, Yuma Sector agents arrested 35-year-old Marco Julio Bran, also a Mexican national, after he illegally re-entered the U.S. A records check revealed a conviction in 2008 for lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14. The court sentenced the man to three years in prison. Officials did not disclose the state in which the act occurred.

#USBP #YumaSector agents caught a sex offender who illegally entered the U.S. from Mexico Wednesday. Marco Julio Bran, a 35-year-old Mex national, was convicted in 2008 for lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 and was sentenced to three years in prison. pic.twitter.com/uABbicYlNu

— Chief Patrol Agent Chris T. Clem (@USBPChiefYUM) April 26, 2022

In the neighboring Tucson Sector, Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin tweeted a photo of Felix Armenta, a Mexican national who agents arrested near Douglas, Arizona. Court records revealed a conviction for felony attempted aggravated criminal sexual abuse from a court in DuPage County, Illinois.

Tucson Sector agents arrested Felix Armenta after he crossed the border illegally near Douglas, AZ. The Mexican citizen is a registered sex offender. In 2008, he was convicted of felony attempted aggravated criminal sexual abuse in #DuPageCounty, IL. #BorderSecurity pic.twitter.com/dwLRb02AQv

— John R. Modlin (@USBPChiefTCA) May 3, 2022

In the Rio Grande Valley Sector, agents arrested three members of the violent 18th Street gang and two other migrants sentenced to prison for cruelty to a child and sexual assault, according to a tweet from Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings.

RGV agents arrest three 18th Street gang members. One of them served 3 years jail time in his home country for gang affiliation.

Two other criminal migrants were identified as serving time for cruelty to a child and sexual assault.https://t.co/CWwtwX5HiO pic.twitter.com/oYAwkO3IhT

— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) May 3, 2022

Each of the previously deported migrants could face federal prosecution for illegal re-entry after removal as a convicted felon. If convicted, each could face up to 20 years in federal prison.