As the highly anticipated presidential election closes in less than two months away, another illegal immigrant has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping an American teen.
The high rate of crime committed by illegal—or “undocumented,” as the Biden administration prefers to say—migrants has been a source of mounting tension as voters weigh the lackluster options on the ballot this year. In the latest incident, an illegal resident from Peru was arrested in Virginia after he allegedly kidnapped a high school student.
According to the Manassas Police Department, the arrest of Jesus Enrique Ramirez Cabrera, age 23, took place on Friday September 6. He was subsequently charged with robbery, abduction, petit larceny, and impersonating police. The suspect was apprehended thanks to a 911 call from a bystander, who saw the girl unwillingly in a car.
Officers soon learned that a man—at first believed to be around age 40 and Hispanic—had approached the girl in a Jeep SUV. She was walking to school at the time of the incident, during which the man claimed to be a police officer and told her to get in the car with him.
He then pulled her into the car by force and drove off. But the victim managed to escape when the car got to Quarry Road, at which time someone called the authorities. Two days after investigating the matter, police identified the man as Cabrera and arrested him. He is being held without bond at the Prince William County Adult Detention center.
The suspect was caught illegally entering the country via Arizona back in December but was then released into the States, according to government sources. An immigration retainer was issued against Cabrera on September 7, though he remains in custody in Manassas. Local law enforcement does not think anyone else was involved in the crime and has assured the community there is no threat.
The daylight kidnapping rings an eerie bell for those still upset about the ruthless killing of a young university student back in February. At the time, Laken Riley’s death was the poster for Americans’ efforts to protect citizens from the unregulated illegal border crossings and subsequent violence.
Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at the University of Georgia, was struck with rocks and asphyxiated while running on campus earlier this year. 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra was indicted the following May on a total of 10 counts, including felony murder, kidnapping, and aggravated battery.
But that is not the most recent tragedy to anger Americans hoping for border security and safety for their children. In June, a 12-year-old named Jocelyn Nungaray was found dead in a creek in Houston, Texas. Three days after her body was discovered, two men were arrested on suspicion of having strangled her to death.
22-year-old Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and 26-year-old Franklin Jose Peña Ramos were later charged with capital murder and held on a $10 million bond. In this case, both suspects illegally entered the United States and were apprehended in El Paso, Texas, by the federal Border Patrol. They had been instructed to appear in court for asylum hearings but were released in the meantime, giving them the freedom to slay an innocent American child.
