A man from Mexico who had been deported 10 times in the last six years is behind bars on charges of raping a child on a Greyhound bus.
He had been voluntarily removed from trhe United States another 9 times according to the Associated Press.
Hays Post reported Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, 41, sexually abused a 12-year-old girl while on Interstate 70, in Kansas’ Geary County, late last month.
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“A Greyhound bus had made a stop in Kansas City and there was an alleged rape that occurred on the bus, however they had no idea where this rape took place,” Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf told Hays Post.
Martinez-Maldonado also had a 2013 federal felony conviction for illegal re-entry into the country, according to information provided by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to The Kansas City Star.
He was arrested by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in Missouri and was turned over to ICE until charges were filed, the paper said.
Martinez-Maldonado remains jailed on $100,000 bond.