Border drone finds Mex child sex-abuse suspect
Leopoldo Aparicio-Lopez, a Mexican
An unmanned plane helped border agents net a man wanted on child sex abuse charges in Washington state, federal officials said Thursday. The aircraft was flying along the Arizona-Mexico border late Tuesday when it detected and tracked six suspected aliens, including
Leopoldo Aparicio-Lopez, a Mexican national. Prosecutors in Kent, Washington, issued warrants for Aparicio-Lopez, 25, last May on a charge of third-degree rape of a child, alleging that he had consensual sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend. Aparicio-Lopez was 23 at the time. The sexual relations came to light when police were called to a home in Kent because of a verbal dispute between the
15-year-old, who had just learned
she was pregnant, and her mother. The girl disclosed that she had been in a six-month relationship with Aparicio-Lopez, records say.