Twice-Deported Immigrant Faces Rape and Kidnapping Charges

Juan Arevalo Mendez, a twice-deported immigrant, has been charged with rape and kidnapping in Fairfax County, Virginia. Former Acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey highlights Mendez’s extensive criminal history, which includes assault and drug possession. Fahey emphasizes these serious crimes could have been prevented if Fairfax County had cooperated with ICE to transfer Mendez into federal custody. Mendez has been deported from the United States twice.

In another case, federal immigration officials have requested a Kentucky jail to detain an illegal immigrant charged with rape, human trafficking, and sexual abuse. This detainee, Rolando Cenobio Vasquez, a Mexican citizen, was arrested on July 29 by Louisville police. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Vasquez was renting a room to a mother and her 15-year-old daughter when he began abusing the teenager in December 2025.

ICE has detained an illegal immigrant accused of sexually assaulting a minor following a birth in a hospital parking lot. Vasquez is charged with rape and sexual abuse for allegedly abusing the teen girl who lived with her mother in his Kentucky home, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported.

A spokesperson for the DHS stated, “ICE has lodged a detainer asking officials in Louisville, Kentucky to not release this criminal from jail, and to hand him over to ICE custody so he can be removed from our country.” Vasquez allegedly threatened the mother and child but sometimes offered the teenager money to stay silent about the abuse.

Charges against Vasquez include three counts of rape, three counts of sodomy, human trafficking, promoting human trafficking with a victim under 18, and sexual abuse. Vasquez’s criminal history includes a prior conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol. ICE submitted a detainer to the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections the same day of his arrest.

A recent query revealed that Vasquez initially entered the United States illegally in August 2013 through Texas, as noted by the DHS. He was arrested and deported by the U.S. Border Patrol. DHS was unable to determine when Vasquez re-entered the U.S. illegally.

Louisville is not a sanctuary jurisdiction. In July 2025, the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections agreed to adhere to a federal law that requires inmates in custody be held for up to 48 hours on immigration detainers.