{"id":239250,"date":"2026-03-27T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239250\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:57:06","slug":"san-diego-cbp-agents-arrest-sex-offender-attempting-to-enter-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239250\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego CBP agents arrest sex offender attempting to enter US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (CNS) &#8211; U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested a man who claimed Mexican nationality with a prior conviction involving a child in San Diego, the agency announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The migrant was taken into custody while attempting to unlawfully enter the U.S. during a maritime smuggling event. He was previously convicted of a lewd or lascivious act on a child under the age of 14, according to San Diego CBP officials.<\/p>\n<p>The convicted sex offender, whose name was not immediately released, was charged with felony illegal re-entry and subsequently sentenced to an additional 12 months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol officials warned migrants with serious criminal records who attempt to re-enter the U.S. illegally will face enhanced penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the smuggling attempt was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (CNS) &#8211; U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested a man who claimed Mexican nationality with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[107706,15686,74,76,75,107707],"class_list":["post-239250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-border-patrol-arrest","tag-customs-and-border-protection","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-sex-offender-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}