(Border Patrol arrests convicted sex offender)...The arrest was made at the Highway 86 Checkpoint.

Arrested was a Guatemalan citizen with a rape conviction. A red sedan had approached the checkpoint with a driver and one passenger. The passenger raised suspicions and the vehicle was sent to the secondary inspection area. Agents used a law enforcement data base to identify the Guatemalan and discovered he had been convicted of child rape in 2014 in Indianapolis. He had been deported from the US in 2017. The same person was caught illegally entering the United State earlier this year near San Clemente. At that time he was sentenced to six months in jail for illegal re-entry of a convicted felon.