U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a Guatemalan man who had been convicted of raping a child before being deported.
According to the agency, agents arrested 42-year-old Artemio Raul Escobar-Ramirez Saturday in the mountains west of Arivaca.
Escobar-Ramirez was convicted of raping a child in 2006 and aggravated sexual battery in 2008. He will be held in federal custody and faces prosecution for criminal immigration violations.
