Illegal Migrant Accused of Raping Woman Along Hiking Trail in Sanctuary County, Had History of Previous Arrests – IJR

An illegal migrant accused of raping a woman on a popular hiking trail in a Washington, D.C., suburb had previously been arrested and released several times by local police.

A woman walking home along the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail in Herndon, Virginia on November 18 was attacked behind nearby bushes and raped by a man. according to an announcement from the Herndon Police Department. Police have charged 31-year-old Denis Humberto Navarette Romero with kidnapping with intent to defile and rape.

“The suspect brutally grabbed the suspect and forced her to the ground where he then raped her,” Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard said during a news conference. “The victim was able to fight off the suspect and run away. At that moment she encountered a passerby who called 911 on behalf of the victim.”

Navarette Romero, a Honduran citizen, was convenient by police just “minutes later” in a nearby parking lot after interviews with the victim and witnesses.

Police revealed at the time of the announcement that the Honduran national has a criminal history dating back several years, with Police Chief DeBoard saying it was “disturbing” how many times he had been arrested and released. An investigation by a local news outlet has since shed more light on the suspect’s criminal past.

Navarette Romero has been charged with sex crimes in Washington, DC, resisting arrest in Virginia and in Washington, DC, and he has been charged with battery, assault, use of a stolen vehicle, trespassing, drinking and smoking marijuana in public, weapons violations, loitering and indecent exposure, according to documents obtained by 7News. He is also said to have been involved in sexual assaults against several young people in 2017.

Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could not immediately comment to the Daily Caller News Foundation, a spokesperson for the Herndon Police Department confirmed to the DCNF that Navarette Romero is unlawfully living in the US.

The incident marks the latest high-profile attack on a woman by an illegal migrant, and bears some similarities to other attacks on women who had walked or walked along a sparsely populated trail.

Venezuelan national Jose Ibarra was found guilty this month, nursing student Laken Riley was killed in what prosecutors labeled a “crime of opportunity” when he tried to rape her while she was running on a trail near the University of Georgia campus. Salvadoran migrant Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez was arrested in June for alleged… rape and murder by Rachel Morin along a popular hiking trail in Hartford County, Maryland.

These attacks, including the assault and murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Texas by two Venezuelan illegal migrants, have fueled the issue of illegal migrant crime. in the national spotlight – especially the debate surrounding sanctuary city policies.

Herndon is located in Fairfax County, Virginia, a place with a label by watchdogs as a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants due to local sheriff’s policies that largely refuse to honor requests for ICE detention. Washington, DC, where Navarette Romero was also reportedly arrested in the past, is also considered a haven for enacting into law similar policies limiting ICE cooperation.