TEXAS (KAUZ) – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has announced that three of Texas’s 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders are back in custody.
Following their recent arrests across the state, authorities captured Eduardo Fuentes, Kenneth Patterson, and Leroy Lewis Jr.
DPS has shared the following details on the arrests:
32-year-old Eduardo Quinones Fuentes, a documented Tango Vallucco gang member who had absconded to Mexico, was taken into custody by U.S. law enforcement authorities at the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge in Hidalgo, Texas, on June 22.
Since 2016, Fuentes has been convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, sexual assault, assault, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, and human smuggling.
DPS added that the sexual assault involved a 29-year-old female victim.
64-year-old Kenneth Wayne Patterson was taken into custody in Plano on June 24 at an apartment complex.
In 1989, Patterson was convicted in Dallas Co. of sexual assault of a child following an incident with an 8-year-old girl and was sentenced to eight years of confinement.
53-year-old Leroy Lewis Jr. was taken into custody in Houston on June 22 at a residence on the south side of Houston.
In the 1990s, Lewis was convicted of murder, aggravated robbery, and aggravated kidnapping. Authorities say that in the kidnapping case, he kidnapped a 20-year-old female victim whom he intended to sexually abuse. Lewis was sentenced to 35 years of confinement.
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