(Another convicted sex offender caught)…It happened this week.

El Centro Border Patrol agents made the arrest. They say the incident happened at around 9:00 Monday night. Remote video surveillance operators observed a man suspected of entering the US illegally about 12 miles east of the Downtown Calexico Port. Agents in the area were notified. Agents arrested the man and conducted an immigration and criminal history screening in the field before transporting him to the El Centro Station. The records check identified the man as 29 year old Gildardo Escobedo Salazar from Mexico. It also revealed the man had been convicted in July 2016 of Sex Abuse in the 3rd degree in Oregon. He had been sentenced to six months in jail and 36 months probation. He had been deported back to Mexico in 2018. Escobedo is being held in federal custody pending further criminal prosecution. He is the 33 convicted or wanted sex offender trying to enter the US illegally this fiscal year.