David I. Ramos-Arenas, 36, who is suspected of impersonating a Border Patrol agent to stop a female driver in Dona Ana County and of raping a mentally disabled woman in Alamogordo, surrendered to authorities in Las Cruces Tuesday afternoon, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported.

Ramos-Arenas turned himself in without incident around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and was taken to the Dona Ana County Detention Center where he was being held without bond, the Sun-News reported.

Ramos-Arenas, who was accompanied by a public defender when he surrendered, was once a U.S. Border Patrol trainee who did not complete his course at the academy in Artesia, the paper said.

A Border Patrol spokesman told the Sun-News last week that the Ramos-Arenas case was an "isolated incident." 

12:35pm 3/19/08 -- New Charges Face Fake Border Agent: Man sought for Otero County rape allegedly accosted woman in Dona Ana County.

David I. Ramos Arenas, who fled Otero County last week after allegedly raping a mentally disabled 24-year-old woman, is being charged in Dona Ana County for an incident that occurred a day before the Alamogordo incident, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting.

Ramos Arenas, who authorities say was enrolled in the Border Patrol Academy but didn't finish the program, is accused of impersonating an agent and persuading a woman to follow him home from the Alamogordo Public Library and sexually assaulting her last Wednesday, the Sun-News reported.

According to a criminal complaint filed this morning by the Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office, Ramos Arenas is accused of stopping a female employee of the District Attorney's Office who was transporting witnesses in an unrelated case in Mesquite on March 11, the paper said.

The complaint said Ramos Arenas was driving a gray, extended cab Dodge pickup truck with a light bar on the vehicle's dashboard when he stopped the woman and accused her of transporting illegal immigrants, the Sun-News said.

He told the woman he intended to take her into custody and would follow her to the District Attorney's Office, but when she asked him to produce identification and she showed him her own ID from the prosecutor's office, he took off in a different direction, the paper reported.

Ramos Arenas is believed to be in possession of a Border Patrol uniform shirt and badge, authorities told the Sun-News.

And sheriff's investigator Bo Nevarez told the paper he thinks Ramos Arenas is in the Las Cruces area, where he is now facing a fourth-degree felony count of false imprisonment and a misdemeanor count of impersonating a peace officer.

The charges he is facing in Otero County include kidnapping and criminal sexual penetration, the Sun-News said.

Ramos Arenas is described as 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 195 pounds with brown eyes and a shaved head. 

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