(Another previously deported sex offender arrested)…He was the 30th one this fiscal year.

The arrest was made early Sunday morning. El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents encountered a man suspected of illegally entering the United States, about 22 miles west of the Calexico West Downtown Port of Entry. The man was arrested and transported to the El Centro Station for immigration and criminal history screening. The check determined the man was 34 year old Jesus Ledezma Rodriguez, a Mexican National. He had been convicted in October 2005 of sex with a minor in Sacramento, California. He was sentenced to 90 days confinement and five years probation. He was deported back to Mexico in 2006. Ledezma is being held in Federal custody pending further criminal prosecution.