Illegals charged with murder, rape and kidnapping – a week full of shocking crimes in the USA

Maryland and Missouri are not border states.

New York borders Canada, not Mexico, yet all three made shocking headlines this week related to alleged kidnappings, murders or rapes blamed on illegal immigrants attacking girls and women.

In Texas, two more illegal immigrants are accused of strangling a 12-year-old girl for unknown reasons.

This series of crimes comes at a time when the Biden administration continues to struggle to combat illegal border crossings between the U.S. and Mexico.

Rachel Morin murder: Illegal immigrant from El Salvador charged with rape and killing of Maryland mother of five

Victor Martinez Hernandez, 23, is charged with first-degree murder and rape after police accuse him of attacking 37-year-old Rachel Morin on a hiking trail in Bel Air, Maryland on August 5, 2023.

Morin was not his first alleged victim.

“We all suspected that Rachel was not his first victim,” Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said after the arrest. “It is my understanding that this suspect, this monster, fled to the United States illegally after committing the brutal murder of a young woman. in El Salvador … in January 2023.”

According to authorities, Martinez Hernandez entered the United States illegally in February 2023. The following month, a woman and her 9-year-old daughter were attacked during a burglary in Los Angeles.

DNA collected in that case later matched Morin’s DNA. He crisscrossed the country for 10 months before police arrested him in Oklahoma this week.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED WHILE ADMINISTRATING 13-YEAR-OLD ON LIGHT BLUE DAY IN NEW YORK PARK

In New York City earlier this week, the NYPD responded to a 1 a.m. 911 call after a group of Good Samaritans encountered a wanted rape suspect accused of handcuffing two 13-year-olds together in a park, silencing them and raping one of them before stealing their cellphones.

They arrested 25-year-old Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi after a group of citizens cornered him and prevented him from trying to fight his way out.

According to authorities, he entered the United States illegally through Eagle Pass in Texas in 2021. He was caught and released, but DNA collected at the time provided a match to the water bottle, prosecutors said.

An immigration judge ordered his deportation in 2022, but he remained in the country to carry out the attack.

Illegal immigrant suspected in Texas girl’s murder was recently arrested by border patrol agents and released into the US

In Houston, police have arrested two illegal immigrants from Venezuela. They are accused of strangling a 12-year-old local girl and throwing her body into a creek.

Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, are charged with capital crimes in connection with the death of Jocelyn Nungaray, city police said Thursday.

Both suspects crossed the border illegally through El Paso on separate occasions, sources told Fox News. Both were captured by Border Patrol and released into the United States.

Jocelyn had sneaked out of her family’s apartment to call her 13-year-old boyfriend, who told police he heard two men’s voices. Surveillance video from a nearby 7-Eleven shows the men approaching her and leading her to a bridge, where police say the murder took place.

Her body was discovered down in the stream.

In Missouri, state officials arrested five illegal immigrants on Monday on suspicion of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl in Indiana.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING INDIANA TEENAGER

The girl’s father reported her missing and police located the suspects’ vehicle near one of her phone signals.

Police found the girl unharmed in the back seat of the vehicle and arrested Mexicans Arturo Eustaquio (41), Noe Guzman Hernandez (24) and Daniel Ruiz Lopez (19) as well as Hondurans Carlos Funez (56) and Marlon Aguilar (44).

All five had entered the country illegally and were being held without bail on kidnapping charges.

In its monthly update Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 117,900 encounters between ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, a decrease of about 9% from the previous month.

Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Bradford Betz and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.