WTNH-TV -- New Haven, Connecticut -- December 31, 2007 Man charged with raping girl smuggled into United States Milford police say they've charged a Maryland man with raping a girl who was among a group of illegal [aliens] he was allegedly transporting across the country. -- Police say Francisco Pascual was being held Sunday on a $1 million bond on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, unlawful restraint...

MetroWest Daily News -- Framingham, Mass. -- December 30, 2007 Invader torches boyfriend A Framingham woman set her boyfriend on fire Thursday then called police claiming he did it himself while he was drunk, authorities said yesterday. -- Rosilandy F. DeSouza is charged with trying to kill her boyfriend, Jose Dos Santos, by spraying him with rubbing alcohol and igniting the liquid with a lighter...

Poughkeepsie (New York) Journal -- December 17, 2007 Invader / rape suspect flees after diving from second-floor window Victims of two rapes in Pawling have not identified a suspected rapist being pursued by police, a 24- year- old illegal [alien... criminal] who is at large after diving from a second-floor window while an officer waited for him to use the bathroom, Dutchess County Sheriff Butch Anderson said Saturday...

Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif. -- December 14, 2007 Illegal alien fiend held in freeway rape case Authorities have linked a man arrested in connection with the rape of a woman along the I-5 through a DNA match this morning, authorities said. -- About 36 hours after he was taken into custody, the OCSD's crime lab matched a DNA sample taken from the crime scene and a sample taken from Alejandro Martinez Leyva... [Related item]

Miami Herald -- December 13, 2007 Cops: Drunken migrant attempted rape to get deported Drunk and missing home, construction worker Juan Carlos Franco stripped naked, broke into a house and tried forcing himself onto a young girl so he would be deported back to Guatemala, police say. -- He is jail for now -- in Miami-Dade. -- Franco was arrested by Miami Officer Ivan Camilo Monday afternoon...

East Valley Tribune -- Phoenix -- December 12, 2007 Arrest of Mexican fiend in videotaping incident came swiftly The investigation started after a Saguaro High School student noticed a lunch worker following a classmate while angling a box lid with a camera hidden in it under her skirt. -- That student notified administrators. And a day later, Richard Espinoza- Valdez, an illegal [alien... criminal] from Mexico, was arrested on charges...

WFSB-TV -- Hartford, Connecticut -- December 11, 2007 Guatemalan gets 5 years in child sex case Litchfield, Conn. -- A Morris man has been sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with a 12- year- old girl in his home. -- Luis E. Torrez, a native of Guatemala, is also facing deportation after serving his time for first-degree sexual assault...

Orlando Sentinel -- December 5, 2007 Invader on trial in rape of girl in Casselberry Sanford, Fla. -- The 10-year-old girl was on her way to the store. It was dusk, and she was on an errand -- to buy macaroni for dinner. -- She had borrowed her brother's scooter, the old-fashioned kind, and was gliding down the sidewalk. She had decided against taking a shortcut through the woods...

KOB-TV -- Albuquerque -- December 4, 2007 Invader wanted for sexual assault nabbed An illegal [alien... criminal] detained at a checkpoint in southern New Mexico over the weekend is wanted in connection with a sexual assault on a Colorado child. -- The man, whose name wasn't released, was picked up at a checkpoint on U.S. Highway 70 on Sunday, according to the Alamogordo Daily News.

Gloucester County (New Jersey) Times -- November 17, 2007 Invader to plead guilty in rape of child Bridgeton, NJ -- An illegal immigrant charged in connection with the sexual assault of a 13-year-old Millville girl last year is expected to plead guilty to aggravated sexual assault. -- Edson Leontes appeared in Superior Court Friday. Superior Court Judge Richard Geiger scheduled Leontes for a status conference on Dec. 3, at which time...

Trenton (New Jersey) Times -- November 17, 2007 Seven arrested on prostitution charges after strip club raid Seven women, all but one of whom are in the United States illegally, were arrested for alleged prostitution after authorities raided a strip club on Thursday night, township police announced on Friday. -- All seven women are Brazilian natives living in Essex County and each was charged with engaging in prostitution...

San Diego Union-Tribune -- November 16, 2007 Mexican invader admits molestation An illegal immigrant accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy in Poway pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14. -- Jesus Mora Nava faces a maximum of 16 years in prison and deportation at his sentencing, scheduled for Jan. 3. He was being held without bail.

San Jose Mercury News -- November 13, 2007 Police arrest likely invader suspected of stalking girls Gilroy [Calif.] police arrested a man on Friday they suspect stalked girls in town for past month. -- Officers picked up Jose David Gonzalez- Raygoza after a teen pointed him out to them as she was questioned about a reported stalking incident. -- The girl told police Gonzalez-Raygoza allegedly pulled up next to her...

East Valley Tribune -- Phoenix -- November 12, 2007 Mexican invader arrested for peeping up woman's skirt An illegal [alien... criminal] from Mexico has been arrested for allegedly peeping up the skirt of a woman as she shopped in a Mesa department store. -- Sebastian Sostenes was booked Sunday night on suspicion of voyeurism, a class 5 felony. -- According to a police report, authorities were called to the Mervyn's...

WKRN-TV -- Nashville -- October 31, 2007 'Immigrant' charged with murder after leaving newborn in trash Smithville, Tenn. -- A teenage immigrant whose newborn died after she gave birth in a restaurant restroom and left the baby in a trash can has been charged with second-degree murder. -- Lillian Sosa was working at the El Rancho Mexican restaurant when she went into labor Friday, authorities said...

Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot -- October 29, 2007 Mexican invader gets light sentence in child-sex case An illegal [alien... criminal] was sentenced today in Chesapeake Circuit Court to a year in prison for having sex with a 13- year- old girl and producing nude images of the child. -- Carlos De La Cruz Ramos was arrested in May after a Wal-Mart store clerk processed film he had dropped off that showed images of a nude child...

KATC-TV -- Lafayette, Louisiana -- October 24, 2007 4 Mexican invaders charged with murder in decapitation Four men have been charged with first-degree murder of a man whose headless body was found in the Atchafalaya River. -- Nelson Joseph Rivero, 41, of Youngsville and Gustavo Acosta, 19, Julio Rodriguez, 22, and Jose Acosta, 34, are accused of killing 27-year-old Mario Lopez of Mexico...

Houston Chronicle -- October 23, 2007 Mexican accused in drunken driving death here illegally An accused drunken driver was in the country illegally when he drove onto a sidewalk in southwest Houston last week and fatally struck a toddler walking with her parents, authorities said. -- Gissela Silvestre died from her injuries Oct. 16 after spending two days in critical condition at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital.

NorthJersey.com -- October 6, 2007 Invader guilty of sex assault on girl, 6 A former worker at the Metropolitan Plant Exchange in Paramus was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting a 6- year- old girl who briefly wandered away from her mother. -- The verdict, which came after three hours of deliberation, will put Silas Quixal in prison for at least 20 years and clears the way for a civil case...

Danbury (Connecticut) News Times -- October 6, 2007 Police arrest illegal alien on sexual assault charges Police charged an Ecuadorean native with first-degree sexual assault and three counts of risk of injury to a minor following a complaint of a sexual assault dating back to May. -- Police said the victim is under 16 years old. The suspect, Efren Guallpa, is not a relative of the minor.

WSJV-TV -- South Bend, Indiana -- October 2, 2007 Invader gets 4 life sentences for murdering own family A Mexican man has been given four more life sentences for killing his wife and three daughters in their Fort Wayne home. -- Simon Rios also received a life sentence last month for sexually assaulting and killing a 10 year old neighbor girl. All five sentences are without the possibility of parole...

Monterey (Calif.) Herald -- October 1, 2007 Mexican national in brutal rape case captured A man described by police as a Mexican national under investigation by immigration authorities and living in Seaside was arrested after a traffic stop Thursday evening as the suspect in a brutal home-invasion rape of a woman in her 50s that occurred in Seaside on Monday.