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Texas Border Business
BROWNSVILLE, Texas –Fort Brown (FTB) Border Patrol Station agents arrested a Cuban National with criminal convictions, including Premeditated Murder.
Yesterday afternoon, FTB agents were working in Brownsville, Texas, near the Rio Grande when they encountered and arrested a Cuban national illegally present in the United States. The subject, Juan Carlos Perez-Morodo, was transported to the FTB station, where record checks revealed that the he was convicted of Premeditated Murder in Phoenix, Arizona in 2009. Perez-Morodo was subsequently sentenced to ten-years confinement for that crime. Agents also discovered Perez-Morodo was previously convicted for his involvement in human smuggling. In 2008, an Arizona court found him guilty of assisting a criminal syndicate and illegal control of enterprise for which he was sentenced to 9 months confinement with probation.
Perez-Modoro will be processed accordingly.
The public is encouraged to take a stand against crime in their communities and report suspicious activity at 800-863-9382.
Even with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, human smugglers continue to try these brazen attempts with zero regard for the lives they endanger nor to the health of the citizens of our great nation. The U.S. Border Patrol agents of the Rio Grande Valley Sector will continue to safeguard the nation and community against these criminal elements.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation’s borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.