Accused Border Patrol Impersonator Faces Federal Charges
Associated Press
LAS CRUCES Federal charges have been filed against a 35-year-old Alamogordo man accused of posing as a U.S. Border Patrol officer.
The Dona Ana County Sheriff's Department says David Ramos-Arenas was served with an arrest warrant Thursday charging him with two counts of impersonating a federal officer.
The Las Cruces Sun-News reports he has been held since last month in the Dona Ana County Detention Center.
Ramos-Arenas faces charges of kidnapping and criminal sexual penetration in Otero County, where he is accused of posing as an agent, luring a woman from the Alamogordo Public Library and raping her.
He is accused in Dona Ana County of impersonating an agent and pulling over a vehicle driven a woman in Mesquite.