TUCSON – A previously deported sex offender, Zacarias Bautista-Emiliano, was discovered among a group of illegal immigrants by U.S. Border Patrol agents in eastern Arizona on Monday.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), agents encountered the group of two men, one woman, and a juvenile while responding to a request for assistance from a Greenlee County Sheriff’s deputy near Clifton, Arizona.
Agents interviewed members of the group, and learned that all five Mexican nationals were illegally present in the country. A records checks revealed that the 32-year-old Bautista-Emiliano, had an extensive criminal history in the United States, according to CBP.
Bautista-Emiliano was found guilty in California of sexual crimes against a child in 2013. Due to extensive immigration violations, Bautista also had received a lifetime ban from entering the United States.