U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that officers at the Laredo Port of Entry, during a recent 72-hour period, apprehended two Texas men, including a Hardin County resident, wanted on outstanding felony warrants for separate sex-related offenses against children.
Jan. 27, CBP officers at Juarez-Lincoln Bridge referred bus passenger J. Santos Reyes Martinez, 64, a lawful permanent U.S. resident, for secondary inspection, at which time biometric verification and federal law enforcement databases discovered that he was the subject of an outstanding felony arrest warrant for indecency with a child, sexual contact, issued by the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office in Kountze.
Officers transported Martinez to a Webb County jail for adjudication of the warrant but, according to Hardin County Sheriff Mark Davis, the name on a 1997 indictment for indecency with a child was Santos Martinez Reyes and his bond was set at $100,000. The indictment, dated April 1997, alleged that he engaged in sexual contact with a child under age 17 in March 1994.
Two days earlier, CBP officers arrested J. Everardo Salazar Rangel, 58, for an outstanding felony arrest warrant for indecency with a child, sexual contact, issued by Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Edna.
“Our frontline CBP officers continue to exercise vigilance in the passenger environment and that dedication to the mission resulted in the apprehension of two men wanted on outstanding warrants for sex-related felony offenses,” said Port Director Albert Flores, Laredo Port of Entry. “Apprehensions of persons wanted for heinous crimes like these perfectly illustrate the importance of CBP’s border security mission and reflect our continued commitment to keeping our communities safe.”