A 32-year-old man from Venezuela, who is in the United States illegally, has been arrested for sexual assault against a minor.
The Campbell County Sheriff’s Office arrested Renzo Mendoza Montes and charged him with two felonies.
BREAKING: Venezuelan illegal immigrant arrested for sexual assault of minor in Virginia
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WDBJ 7 reports:
The sheriff’s office says Mendoza was detained and released by US Customs and Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas in September 2023.
He is being held in Virginia without bond.
Venezuelan migrant illegally in US charged for sexual assault against minor in Virginia
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The arrest follows the news of nursing student Laken Hope Riley’s death at the University of Georgia campus in Athens.
Police Identify Suspect In Killing Of 22-Year-Old Georgia Nursing Student, Reportedly Not A U.S. Citizen
Riley’s body was found Thursday in a wooded area near Lake Herrick that’s popular with runners and walkers, sparking an investigation.
The University of Georgia Police Department took Jose Ibarra, 26, into custody for Riley’s death.
From The Post Millennial:
This comes after another Venezuelan man was charged in the murder of Augusta nursing student Laken Riley. Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, was arrested and charged in connection with her death. Riley was out for a job on UGA’s campus at the time she was attacked and killed by Ibarra.
Ibarra also entered the country illegally in September and put in an asylum claim. That claim gave him the legal status, under the Biden administration, to remain in the US pending trial. It is unknown when his trial was set for, but many asylum seekers are given dates to appear in court many years into the future.
In Ibarra’s case, he applied for asylum with his wife, who said the two got married in order to merge their two cases. They entered the country together along with her 5-year-old son. Ibarra was arrested on child endangerment charges in New York, though the case was dismissed, and the records sealed.
Ibarra then left New York and went to Georgia where he has a brother who had obtained work on the UGA campus using a fake green card.
