Man twice deported accused of raping girl in Seaside
ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) -- Immigration officials say an Oregon man charged with rape had twice been deported.
The Daily Astorian reports Seaside police arrested 24-year-old Anastacio Eugenio Lopez-Fabian in February after investigators determined he had sex several times with a girl younger than 14. In addition to rape, he's charged with assault and harassment.
Lopez-Fabian posted bail and was released. But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement later detained him in a courthouse parking lot as he arrived for a hearing.
He is now at a detention center in Tacoma, Washington.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Carissa Cutrell says Lopez-Fabian was deported to Guatemala in 2013 and 2014.
The federal agency criticized Clatsop County last year for not detaining undocumented immigrants.
Sheriff Tom Bergin says: "He posted bail, so there's not much we can do unless ICE notifies us, which it didn't."
ICE spokesperson Lori K. Haley told KOIN 6 News,
Anastacio Eugenio Lopez-Fabian is a citizen of Guatemala illegally in the U.S. ICE deportation officers removed him to his home country on two prior occasions, once in April 2013 and another time in January 2014... On Feb. 16, 2018, Lopez-Fabian was arrested for felony rape, among other charges, and booked and released from the Clatsop County Jail without the jail notifying ICE. Hours after his release, ICE deportation officers received information from federal databases about his prior immigration history and his most recent arrest. From there, they conducted an online review of jail and court records and determined that Lopez-Fabian did not have lawful status in the country, and subsequently, targeted him for immigration enforcement. They arrested Lopez-Fabian March 7 on immigration violations prior to his scheduled court appearance on the pending rape charges."