(Previously deported sex offender)…He was caught illegally trying to re-enter the US.

It happened Tuesday evening at around 6:40. Agents assigned to the El Centro Station encountered a man suspected of illegally entering the US about 22 miles west of the Calexico Downtown Port of Entry. The man was arrested and taken to the El Centro station for immigration and criminal history screening. The man was identified as 41 year old Antonio Barrera Hernandez from Mexico. It was discovered Barrera had been convicted of Sexual Battery in 2003 in Sonoma County, California. He had been sentenced to 4 years in prison. He was deported as an aggravated felon in 2005. The man is being held in federal custody pending further criminal prosecution.