Last week, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents tracked a convicted child abuser, Carlos Arturas Vargas-Duron, 33 of Honduras, through the desert and apprehending him nine miles east of the Andrade, California port of entry early in the morning.
According to the Yuma Sector’s Chief Border Patrol Agent Chris Clem, “after receiving notice of two people walking under the cover of darkness, agents began tracking the footprints, a technique known as “cutting sign,” and within minutes, found Vargas-Duron hiding in the brush. Vargas-Duron refused to give himself up and fled, running until exhaustion, just a hundred yards south of Interstate 8. Agents arrested Vargas-Duron and transported him to the Yuma Station for processing.”
Records revealed that a Montgomery County (Maryland) circuit court had convicted Vargas-Duron in December 2009 of first- and second-degree child abuse for fracturing the skull of a newborn while babysitting for his girlfriend. Duron served seven years of his 25-year sentence in Maryland before being placed on supervisory probation and removed to Honduras in November 2018.