TEXAS (KAUZ) – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has announced that three of Texas\u2019s 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders are back in custody.<\/p>\n
Following their recent arrests across the state, authorities captured Eduardo Fuentes, Kenneth Patterson, and Leroy Lewis Jr. <\/p>\n
DPS has shared the following details on the arrests:<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
DPS added that the sexual assault involved a 29-year-old female victim.<\/p>\n
64-year-old Kenneth Wayne Patterson was taken into custody in Plano on June 24 at an apartment complex.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
53-year-old Leroy Lewis Jr. was taken into custody in Houston on June 22 at a residence on the south side of Houston.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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