MIAMI — Air and Marine Operations (AMO), an operational component of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested, Marvin Delgado Quinonez, a 23-year-old criminal alien convicted of Lewd and Lascivious Battery.

Delgado Quinonez was apprehended on March 13, by AMO Marine Interdiction Agents and ICE agents near Stuart, Florida after a joint investigation. Delgado Quinonez, a Guatemalan citizen was convicted in 2019 for Lewd and Lascivious Battery after impregnating a 12-year-old girl when he was 17-years-old.

Agents took Delgado into custody without incident and is being held in ICE custody pending an immigration hearing. 

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