ICE El Paso deports convicted rapist from Mexico

A convicted rapist from Mexico is back in his homeland after being deported by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

Officials with the Department of Homeland Security said Jesus Andrade-Sanchez, 33, was turned over to Mexican authorities at El Paso’s Stanton international bridge Friday. A photo shows Andrade being handed over.

Andrade is wanted in Michoacan for the 2005 murder of Juan Carlos Castillo Andrade, 26.

Andrade-Sanchez was convicted of rape Sept. 30, 2005, in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison. That same court convicted him the same day for obstruction of legal process and sentenced him to 11 months incarceration.

Andrade-Sanchez entered ICE custody June 23, 2016, after he was released from the Corrections Corporation of American in Leavenworth, Kansas. Officers from ERO Kansas served him with a Final Administrative Removal Order.

On July 19, 2016, the Mexican attorney general’s office in El Paso, Texas, advised ERO El Paso that Andrade-Sanchez is wanted for aggravated homicide in Mexico. The attorney general in Mexico requested ERO’s assistance in turning him over to Mexican law enforcement officers upon his removal from the United States.

Andrade-Sanchez had previously been deported from the U.S. before. DHS officials said he was deported in October 2002, after he was apprehended illegally entering the United States near El Paso on the same day.

Andrade-Sanchez was returned to Mexico again after he illegally entered the United States near San Luis, Arizona, Jan. 5, 2005. Sometime later that same year he again illegally re-entered the United States.

Anyone who re-enters the United States after having been deported commits a felony punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison, if convicted.