{"id":704247,"date":"2010-03-29T19:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T23:43:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:51:11","slug":"deported-sex-offender-arrested-in-san-diego-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/704247","title":{"rendered":"Deported sex offender arrested in San Diego County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A convicted sex offender who had been deported from the U.S. was arrested in San Diego County after he failed to stop at a freeway checkpoint, authorities said Monday.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The man, a 53-year-old Mexican citizen, had been convicted in 1991 of child sex crimes in Riverside, the Department of Homeland Security said. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The suspect was arrested Thursday night after he drove a semi-truck through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 8 near Alpine, the department said. An agent followed the truck as it continued to drive west on the freeway and then stopped the driver.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The man was being held by federal authorities and is facing charges for allegedly reentering the U.S. as a deported felon, the Homeland Security Department said. His name was not released.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A convicted sex offender who had been deported from the U.S. was arrested in San Diego County after he failed to stop at a freeway checkpoint, authorities said Monday.The man, a 53-year-old Mexican citizen, had been convicted in 1991 of child sex crimes in Riverside, the Department of Homeland Security said. The suspect was arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XcP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805520,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704247\/revisions\/805520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}