Former Oklahoma police officer faces child sex crimes charges in federal court
By Harrison Grimwood Tulsa World
Federal prosecutors charged a former Tulsa police officer on Wednesday with three sex crimes connected to a case awaiting trial in state court.
Prosecutors charged Noel McFadden, 71, with sexual exploitation of a child, enticement and possession of child pornography, according to the indictment. McFadden, who worked for the Tulsa Police Department from 1975 to 1986, is also charged in Tulsa County District Court with seven counts of child sexual abuse.
State prosecutors will review the federal indictment to determine if and how the federal charges will affect state charges, Tulsa County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Sally Van Schenck said.
2 charged in one of worst child sexual abuse
cases sheriff says he’s seen
Chelsea Corona
Reporter/Producer WCSO
VICKSBURG, Miss. —
A man and a woman have been charged in connection with one of the worst cases of child sexual abuse Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace says he’s seen.
The investigation began Jan. 4 when the Sheriff’s Department received a tip that two children under the age of 12 were being sexually abused in a home in Warren County, Pace said. The following day, investigators arrested Canary Johnson, 36, and charged her with two counts of accessory after the fact of sexual battery, the sheriff said.
A warrant was issued Friday for James Willie Ross Jr., 47, Pace said. The search for Ross spanned several Mississippi counties and ended at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday when he surrendered at the Warren County Sheriff’s Office.
Ross is charged with two counts of sexual battery and one count of statutory rape of a child under 12, Pace said. Ross is a registered sex offender out of Tennessee, Pace said.
Johnson and Ross are jailed without bond.
Pace said the children are safe and in state custody. Citing confidentiality, Pace did not disclose the relationship between the suspects and the children.
Nor did they indicate what qualifies this as one of the worst cases the Sheriff has ever seen.
Bond denied for South Carolina man facing
multiple child sex charges
By Tripp Girardeau tgirardeau@aikenstandard.com
Bond was denied Thursday for an Aiken man charged in connection to multiple reports of sexual abuse involving three juveniles.
Michael James Wier, 29, of Wyman Street, is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and disseminating obscene material or exhibiting obscene behavior, according to solicitors.
Wier's attorney filed a motion for bond Thursday, but the judge denied the motion saying he felt he was still a "danger to the community and society."
Investigators with the Aiken Department of Public Safety met with the victims on April 4, 2017, in relation to reports of sexual abuse and molestation by the suspect, according to the police report.
Solicitors said Thursday the victims were ages 5, 8 and 9, and the abuse reportedly occurred for more than a year.
Wier was arrested on May 5, 2017 and taken to the Aiken County detention center, where he will continue to be held until his trial date.
Alien gets up to 16 years after returning to sexually abuse former victim's little sister
By Lisa Dayley Smith lsmith@uvsj.com
REXBURG — An man previously deported from the United States was sentenced to 4 to 16 years in prison following a hearing in Madison County District Court on Monday afternoon. During the court hearing the judge found the defendant guilty of sexually abusing a child under the age of 16.
Fernando Lopez-Susano, who was living in the United States illegally, and his attorney, Jay Kohler, came before Seventh District Judge Greg Moeller for sentencing. Lopez pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse charge via an Alford plea last year. In an Alford plea a defendant maintains his innocence but acknowledges that there is enough evidence to convict him.
Lopez originally faced a charge of lewd conduct with a minor under the age of 16 as well as the charge of sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 16. He later pleaded guilty to the latter charge in exchange for the first charge being dropped by the Madison County prosecutor.
Lopez faced similar charges in 2008 involving his current victim's older sister. He was deported to Mexico before his case could go to trial in Madison County, so the charges were dismissed without prejudice. He later returned to the United States, where he continued a relationship with the mother of the girl he was accused of abusing. It is alleged that shortly after returning, Lopez started sexually abusing the younger sister.
The abuse allegedly concerned inappropriate touching and fondling by Lopez when the girl was between the ages of 10 and 15 years old. The abuse did not include intercourse.
What was going through the mother's head when she allowed the creep back into her home? Good grief! She should be charged with endangerment!
There is much more on this case here.
Maryland man indicted on 106 counts
of child rape, sex abuse
By Marty Madden
Prince Frederick, MD - A Calvert County man is facing 106 felony counts in connection with allegations he sexually abused a young female over the course of three years, court officials reported. Calvert County Circuit Court indicted Curtis Andrew Leymeister II, 32 of Prince Frederick, in late December. According to a docket summary, Leymeister was indicted on 52 counts of second-degree rape and 54 counts of sex abuse of a minor.
According to a statement of probable cause, which was submitted early last month by Detective William Rector of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, Child Protective Services contacted authorities about the alleged incidents. “Initial investigation revealed that over the past three years Curtis Andrew Leymeister II engaged in sexual intercourse of multiple levels with a minor,” Rector stated. “Victim stated these incidents of sexual intercourse started at age 12.The use of sexual aids, pornographic material and numerous sexual acts occurred at the residence. As the investigation continued, it was learned that Leymeister videotaped their sexual intercourse using a personally owned video camcorder and they viewed their sexual intercourse on several occasions.”
According to Rector’s statement, he and Detective Michael Mudd interviewed Leymeister, who admitted to police, “I hate myself so much.” A search and seizure warrant was executed at the residence where the lurid activity allegedly occurred. The search yielded “numerous sexual aids and implements,” Rector stated.
The victim told investigators that when the encounters first began “she would attempt to fight her way out but then succumbed to his [Leymeister’] size and strength,” Rector stated.
A District Court bail review resulted in the defendant being held at the detention center. Leymeister is being represented by Luke Woods of the Office of the Public Defender. Deputy State’s Attorney Kathryn Marsh is handing the prosecution, court records indicated. A trial is tentatively scheduled for late April.
Case for Ghost Storyteller Accused of
Child Molestation Postponed
Two Judges Disqualified from Presiding
The preliminary hearing for accused child molester John Robert Beideman, also known as Carpathian the scary storyteller, was continued today after lawyers disqualified the only two judges willing to preside.
LEFT: Beidemen’s October mugshot | RIGHT: As his alter ego Carpathian
This morning defense attorney Russ Clanton disqualified visiting Judge Leonard Lacasse, so the preliminary hearing was moved to Judge Greg Elvine-Kreis’ courtroom. Elvine-Kreis, a former defense attorney, said he had no problem presiding over the hearing as he didn’t know Biedeman. He was still disqualified by Deputy District Attorney Stacey Eads.
All other local judges have removed themselves from the case, because the 57-year-old Beideman worked for many years as a clerk for the Humboldt County Superior Court.
Beideman, known in the community as a children’s storyteller who wore an eerie skeleton-type costume, is accused of long-term sexual abuse of one child. He has been in custody since he was arrested in October at his home in Myrtletown.
The preliminary hearing is now scheduled for Feb. 15 and will have to be heard by another visiting judge.
Beideman faces life in prison if convicted of all charges. Those include continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child 10 or younger, lewd acts with a child under 14 and one count of a forcible lewd act on a child.
Oregon man sentenced to 54 years in child sex abuse case
By: KTVZ
PRINEVILLE, Ore. - A Crook County judge sentenced a 38-year-old Prineville man to more than 54 years in prison Thursday after a jury found him guilty on 15 counts of sexual abuse involving three children, District Attorney Wade Whiting said.
The sentence Judge Annette Hillman imposed on Robert Vincent Clark includes no eligibility for any form of early release and lifetime supervision and registration as a sex offender, Whiting said.
The sentence followed a week-long trial in which the jury found that Clark had sexually abused the three children over the course of six separate incidents from 2008 to 2013.
The felony convictions include first- and second-degree sodomy and sexual abuse, as well as luring a minor. Clark also has additional charges of child sex abuse still pending in Wheeler County, the DA said.
Whiting said the case developed after an 11 year-old girl disclosed to a friend at school about the long-time and ongoing sexual abuse by Clark. The friend encouraged the girl to disclose the abuse to her mother, which she ultimately did.
Upon learning of the abuse, the mother immediately made the appropriate report to law enforcement and the state Department of Human Services, Whiting said. A thorough investigation ensued and Clark was arrested shortly thereafter.
While Clark was in custody, two other child victims came forward and disclosed years of sexual abuse by him, Whiting said.
During the course of these investigations, the KIDS Center provided invaluable support with interviews and medical evaluations.
As is common in cases involving child sexual abuse, the disclosures were delayed by several years and no identifiable physical evidence was located during the physical examinations.
However, Whiting said, "as a result of the thoroughness of the forensic interviews and the strength of the children’s statements, the state was able to achieve a successful outcome in the case."
Oregon activists accused of child abuse, assault
Whitney Woodworth, Statesman Journal , KGW
A Polk County couple known for their human rights activism and Falls City-based farm were arrested in December and are now facing charges of sexual abuse, child abuse and assault.
Matthew McDaniel, 59, is accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl over the course of several years.
According to a probable cause statement, McDaniel molested the girl several times from 2014 to 2017. The girl told police he would tie her up and hit her if she refused to touch him sexually.
His wife, Michu Uaiyue, 39, is accused of physically abusing and assaulting the same girl during the same time period. The girl disclosed that she'd been repeatedly beaten and tortured by Uaiyue.
In one instance, Uaiyue allegedly melted a plastic bottle and dripped the hot, liquid plastic onto the girl's bare hands and legs. The girl also told police that Uaiyue would cut her with glass and heated metal, hit her with a stick and tie her up in the garage several days at a time to punish her.
A doctor evaluated the girl's injuries and stated they were consistent with the descriptions of the abuse, according to police reports.
McDaniel, a former Willamette University student and president of the Akha Heritage Foundation, has been making headlines since the early 2000s when he began campaigning against the Thai government's treatment of the Akha hill tribe.
While living in Thailand, McDaniel met Uaiyue, an Akha woman, and started a family. The Thai government imprisoned and deported McDaniel in 2004.
The family relocated to Keizer and continued their activism. In 2009, the couple and their five children spent nine months on a "Ride for Freedom" to the United Nations headquarters in New York City to raise awareness of the injustices against the Akha people.
Uaiyue and McDaniel also founded Akha Farm near Falls City in 2011. The farm quickly grew into a fixture at local farmers markets.
McDaniel's December arrest wasn't the first time authorities investigated abuse claims against him.
In 2016, the same girl reported that McDaniel threw her against a car and injured her back. Polk County deputies arrested McDaniel, but the district attorney's office dismissed the assault charges against him after the girl wrote a letter recanting her statements.
One year later, she told investigators Uaiyue forced her to write the recantation statement by threatening to cut her hair one inch at a time. According to police reports, she said her hair was cut to her ears by the time she finished writing the letter.
On Dec. 7, McDaniel was arrested on two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. Additional charges were added later relating to the 2016 incident when McDaniel allegedly threw the victim against a car, including fourth-degree assault, first-degree criminal mistreatment, menacing and unlawful use of a firearm.
Uaiyue was arrested the same day on charges of fourth-degree assault, three counts of second-degree assault, three counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment and tampering with a witness.
Both pleaded not guilty to all charges.
McDaniel was held on $122,500 bail and later released. He is scheduled to appear in court again on March 19. Uaiyue was granted conditional release on Dec. 12. Her next court hearing is set for March 19
Ohio fugitive wanted for child abuse is dead
after standoff in Arizona
Sarah Volpenhein, The Marion Star
MARION - A Marion fugitive wanted on suspicion of child abuse is dead after a standoff with law enforcement in Arizona.
Raymond B. Norton, 33, of Marion, killed himself after U.S. Marshals found him and his wife Tuesday at a campground outside Quartzsite, Ariz., said Lt. Donald Schlecht of the La Paz County Sheriff's Office in Arizona.
Norton had been on the run from law enforcement for at least a month, said Marion Police Chief Bill Collins. Marion police opened an investigation into Norton after a boy told his school guidance counselor that Norton had been physically and sexually abusing him and other children for several years, according to court records.
U.S. Marshals found Norton's vehicle and camper Tuesday at La Posa Long Term Visitor Area just south of the small Arizona town of nearly 3,700 people and called for backup from the La Paz County Sheriff's Office and the Bureau of Land Management, Schlecht said.
Law enforcement officers confirmed that Norton and his wife were inside the camper, Schlecht said, but when they tried to take him into custody, he refused to come out of the trailer and threatened to hurt himself.
Norton's wife, who came out of the camper, told law enforcement that Norton had a small-caliber handgun and a machete, Schlecht said. Law enforcement officers were trying to convince Norton to turn himself in for about two hours, Schlecht said, before Norton shot himself once in the head.
I'm really sorry but 'once in the head'. You rarely get off a second shot when you shoot yourself in the head.
Norton was taken to a hospital in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., where he died early Wednesday, Schlecht said.
Norton had been indicted in November on one count of endangering children, a third-degree felony, in Marion County Common Pleas Court. The charge stemmed from an incident in which Norton was accused of hitting a child's hand with a hammer, according to an affidavit filed in Marion Municipal Court and signed by Marion Police Detective Nicholas Esterline.
Marion police continued to investigate the more serious allegations against Norton of prolonged sexual abuse of children, Collins said. But he was released from jail after making bail on Nov. 11, after which police say he fled.
Not long after he was released from jail, a warrant was issued for his arrest. The warrant specified that if Norton was arrested anywhere in the United States, the arresting agency would be required to hold him and notify the Marion Police Department of his arrest.
Prosecutors had planned on pursuing rape charges against Norton, Collins said.
Norton had one criminal conviction on his record in Marion County, according to online court records. In 2007, he pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge, a first-degree misdemeanor, in Marion Municipal Court.
Defendant found guilty in Michigan
child sex abuse case
By David Panian
Daily Telegram News Editor
ADRIAN — Jurors believed a 15-year-old boy’s account of repeated sexual abuse about 10 years ago and found the man accused of molesting him guilty Wednesday.
The Lenawee County Circuit Court jury of seven men and five women deliberated for about an hour and a half before returning with the verdict. They found Joel Dean Kurowicki, 34, of Adrian guilty on each of the three first-degree criminal sexual conduct charges against him.
Kurowicki faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced Feb. 22. Judge Margaret M.S. Noe had him taken into custody after the verdict was read.
In closing statements, Assistant Monroe County Prosecutor Jennifer Ewen argued that the jury should not get caught up in discrepancies in testimony about things such as descriptions of the home or who picked up the boy after school. She said the boy’s appearance on the witness stand showed he didn’t get his facts mixed up and would correct someone if he felt they had the facts wrong.
She said there didn’t need to be other evidence beyond the boy’s testimony to prove he was abused. “Do you believe that something happened, that the defendant sexually assaulted (the boy)?” Ewen said.
Ewen was assigned the case after the Lenawee County Prosecutor’s Office agreed to disqualify itself after the defense raised concerns of a conflict of interest. The Lenawee County assistant prosecutor who was assigned to the case, Angie Borders, was Kurowicki’s probation officer in a 2006 drunken-driving case.
Defense attorney Bill McCririe of Brighton said Ewen wanted the jury to believe something happened despite having “a lot of holes” in her case. “We don’t convict people of serious crimes just because we think something happened,” he told the jury.
McCririe described the charges against his client as a rush to judgment after a “horrible” investigation that he told the jury did not ascertain information the boy provided in a forensic interview conducted about a month after he reported the abuse in December 2014.
Jurors on Wednesday heard further testimony from the Michigan State Police trooper who investigated the allegations, the Lenawee County Probate Court employee to whom the boy reported the abuse, a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services employee who worked with the boy at the time of the report, and Kurowicki’s mother. All but the trooper were defense witnesses. McCririe did not call Kurowicki to testify.
McCririe questioned state police Sgt. Waylon Jones about why he didn’t go to the houses where the boy, his mother and younger sister, and Kurowicki lived while Kurowicki and the boy’s mother were married from June 2006 into 2007 and why he didn’t get a copy of the doctor’s report from an exam that was done of the boy when his grandmother suspected he may have been abused.
The abuse was reported to have happened between February 2006 and December 2008 in Madison Township and Tecumseh.
Jones said he didn’t ask for search warrants or visit the homes because he didn’t want to bother the people who lived in those houses in late 2014 and 2015. And he said he didn’t get the doctor’s report because Child Protective Services already had a copy among its files on the boy.
McCririe also was critical of Jones for not ascertaining Kurowicki’s work schedule to see if he would have been able to pick up the boy from school and take him home and abuse him. Jones reiterated his testimony from Tuesday that Kurowicki denied the allegations when he confronted with them. Jones said that conversation lasted about 15 minutes.
The woman to whom the boy reported the abuse, Assistant Lenawee County Probate Court Administrator Shannon Elliott, testified she had contact with the boy through her job. The boy testified Tuesday he trusted Elliott enough to tell her what happened to him when he was between 4 and 6 years old.
Erica Marvin from the Lenawee County office of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services testified on her working relationship with the boy and his family and explained some of the procedures Child Protective Services workers have to follow.
She described the boy’s life as “very chaotic.” DHHS became involved with him when he was 4 or 5 and was placed into foster care, then there was a period of time without contact until 2013. His case was closed in March 2015 but reopened in 2016 when he was placed back in foster care.
In his closing statement, McCririe said he called Elliott and Marvin to show the boy had opportunities to report the abuse before December 2014 but did not.
McCririe also said the boy made up the abuse story to deflect the court and DHHS workers’s attention from him to someone else. He said the boy’s pauses before answering questions about where pencils he said were used in the abuse came from was a tell that he made up the story and didn’t have a ready answer to those question.
“That’s what the young man was doing,” McCririe said. “That’s what he’s been advised to do.”
Paula Kurowicki, Joel Kurowicki’s mother, testified about how she would give him rides to work at a pallet company in Clinton on a daily basis. She said she also helped with babysitting the boy and his sister after school or daycare. She said sometimes the boy and girl would go to his other grandmother’s home.
She also described the homes her son and the boy and his mother and sister lived. She said she never saw an American flag or a desk in her son’s bedrooms in Madison Township or Tecumseh, like the boy described Tuesday. She also said the houses were each like a “pigsty” and not suitable for children. She described her son and the boy’s mother as “a lovey-dovey couple.”
In her closing statement, Ewen asked why Paula Kurowicki waited until Wednesday to tell anyone about her driving her son to work and to pick up the boy in the afternoon.
“That was a lie,” she said.
Ewen said Paula Kurowicki could have called the investigating trooper to provide that alibi and suggested she and her son came up with that story while driving to and from court.
Family sues Kuna School District, claims others knew employee was abusing disabled boy
BY NICOLE BLANCHARD
The Kuna School District is being sued on behalf of a minor after a Kuna Middle School office manager was accused of sexually assaulting the child and other office employees did nothing to stop the behavior, a lawsuit alleges.
The suit, filed Jan. 5, comes two months after former office manager Melissa Whiteley was fired amid a police investigation of “inappropriate conduct with a minor.” No charges have been filed against Whiteley, who was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit. Ada County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Patrick Orr confirmed that Whiteley is still under investigation.
In the suit, Whiteley is accused of “grooming” the boy, who lawyers say suffers from a learning disorder, when he was in seventh, eighth and ninth grades. The lawsuit claims that the school district failed to protect the boy from a sexual predator, and the child’s lawyer is seeking damages of at least $2 million.
“The entire office staff including the principal had actual knowledge from observation and discussion of Whiteley grooming (the child) with sexual contact in 2015, 2016 and 2017,” the lawsuit alleges.
According to the suit, Whiteley had a desk in the office common area where “various senior members of the administrative staff” could see her regular interactions with the alleged victim.
“(The student) had no educational reason to loiter at Whiteley’s desk. They would share intimate, whispered conversations with occasional physical contact,” the lawsuit claims. “At various times one or more of the staff in the office area made comments to (the child) such as ‘she is way too old for you’ and to Whiteley and (the child); ‘you two shouldn’t be flirting so much here in the office.’”
The boy’s lawyer also alleges that a teacher in the district knew of the boy’s affinity for visiting Whiteley. The lawsuit claims school district employees “disregarded the public, obvious and glaring red flags that Whiteley could be or was a sexual predator; they allowed the constant contact in the office complex without voicing disapproval and to the contrary, making coy chiding remarks.”
When the boy left Kuna Middle School for high school in 2017, Whiteley allegedly began texting the student, including nude photos, according to the boy’s lawyer. The suit alleges that the boy’s mother became alarmed when Whiteley started texting the child and coming to the family’s home to pick him up in her vehicle. She learned of the sexual nature of their relationship from her son, the lawsuit says, and notified the Ada County Sheriff’s Office of the relationship.
When Whiteley was fired in November, Kuna District Superintendent Wendy Johnson said there was “nothing in (Whiteley’s) background check that indicated that we could have anticipated this alleged behavior from her.”
Kuna, Idaho
Ex-Dunellen Rec Director To Be Sentenced For
Child Sex Crimes
Christopher Tarver was also a youth basketball coach; his victim was a teen boy he coached in the AAU-affiliated Monmouth Power Sports Club.
By Carly Baldwin, Patch Staff
DUNELLEN, NJ — A man who once worked as the recreation director in both Dunellen and North Plainfield will be sentenced March 9 after he was found guilty of a slew of sex crimes against a 15-year-old boy he coached on a traveling basketball team.
Christopher Tarver, 45, of Jackson Township, was also a youth basketball coach in the area, and his victim was an underage teen boy he coached on a traveling boys' basketball team affiliated with the AAU, prosecutors said.
Tarver is also formerly the basketball coach at Middlesex County Men's College. He was fired from all his jobs working with youth when he was arrested in 2014.
He was found guilty Nov. 15, but still has more charges pending against him for alleged sexual assault against three more children.
Middlesex County prosecutors say the heinous sex crimes he was convicted of occurred between June 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011, when Tarver was a coach and recreation director. The investigation began after one of the victims, now an adult, notified authorities. That victim was a member of the Monmouth Power Sports Club, a traveling basketball team affiliated with the AAU. Tarver had been the coach and executive director of the team since 1995.
The victim said Tarver sexually assaulted him multiple times, in Edison, Atlantic City, as well as inside the Dunellen Recreation Center. During the two years when the crimes were committed, Tarver had supervisory power and the legal duty to care for the teen. The abuse started when the boy was 15 years old.
Tarver was found guilty by a jury on 20 criminal counts on Nov. 15 of last year, including eight counts of endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree, one count of engaging in a pattern of official misconduct in the second degree, one count of sexual assault in the second degree, five counts of criminal sexual contact in the fourth degree and four counts of official misconduct in the fourth degree.
He was also found in possession of child pornography when police raided his Jackson Township home on April 8, 2014.
Tarver still faces criminal charges involving three other child victims he allegedly sexually assaulted. Tarver is facing a prison term of up to 50 years in prison when he is sentenced in New Brunswick on March 9.
"Frequently, child sexual predators actively seek out positions which allow them access to children, such as coaching," said Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey. "In some cases, sexual predators may change positions frequently to avoid detection. In order to stop such horrific sexual abuse, it is extremely important that background checks be conducted and detailed questions be asked of prior employers anytime someone is applying for a job which requires interaction with children."
Former U.S. Missionary Gets 40 Years For
Child Sexual Abuse
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Arkansas man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing children while working as a missionary in Haiti.
A U.S. Department of Justice news release says 36-year-old Daniel Pye was sentenced Wednesday. He was convicted in November of three counts of traveling in foreign commerce with the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.
Pye operated an orphanage in Jacmel, Haiti, from 2006 to 2012. He became well-known among missionaries and helped coordinate relief efforts after the 2010 earthquake. Authorities say Pye regularly abused female residents of his orphanage, including girls as young as 6.
Pye was jailed for about five months in Haiti in 2011 amid a dispute with members of his U.S.-based mission over property belonging to their home for children.
Mexican man wanted in Irving on child sex abuse charge is caught crossing into Texas
A Mexican citizen wanted in Irving on a charge of sexual abuse of a child was arrested Wednesday trying to cross into Texas.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said agents found Francisco Lopez, 64, on a commercial bus crossing the Juárez-Lincoln International Bridge into Laredo.
They determined he was being sought on a Dallas County warrant for continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 and took him to the Webb County jail, where he remained in custody Thursday.
Further information about the allegations against Lopez was not immediately available from Irving police.
"CBP officers remain vigilant in intercepting travelers with outstanding warrants," said Alberto Flores, port director of the Laredo Port of Entry. "This apprehension demonstrates our CBP officers' vigilance and dedication to securing the homeland and keeping our communities safe."
The arrest was the second at the border in the past week involving a fugitive wanted in Dallas County. On Jan. 4, agents apprehended a man accused of indecency with a child.
Also last week, agents caught a man trying to re-enter the county after being deported following his conviction in the 2011 death of a motorcyclist in Dallas.
Juárez-Lincoln International Bridge
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