While a majority of Americans were enjoying the Christmas holiday, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents were busy apprehending convicted sex offenders.
According to USBP Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem, on Christmas Eve, Yuma agents patrolling near the Morelos Dam arrested a group of 15 migrants who illegally entered the United States from Mexico. Among the group was Luis Morales-Diaz, a 59-year-old migrant from Mexico, who was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 in Los Angeles in 2002. He was sentenced to three years at the Calipatria State Prison.
Morales-Diaz also had two prior formal removals from the U.S.
Then, on Sunday, December 26, agents assigned to the Wellton Border Patrol Station apprehended a group of six migrants along Interstate 8 near mile marker 48. Record checks conducted on the migrants revealed one of them, Humberto Pacheco-Casas, was convicted of sexual intercourse with a minor in Los Angeles in 2013. He was sentenced to 168 days in jail.
Pacheco-Casas, a 36-year-old migrant from Mexico, was also convicted of re-entry of a removed alien earlier this year for which he served 123 days behind bars.
Both Morales-Diaz and Pacheco-Casas will be prosecuted for felony re-entry of a removed alien and face additional prison time, according to Clem.