EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Immigration officials say they arrested an alleged sex offender after he barricaded himself inside a home in Vado, New Mexico.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents learned the whereabouts of Jesus Luis Cuevas Pacheco, 47, following a disturbance in the small southern New Mexico town. It involved alleged threats to family members and the alleged sale of narcotics, ICE said in a statement.

ICE agents on Sept. 27 attempted to serve a warrant on Cuevas for illegal reentry into the United States after deportation and met resistance.

The suspect allegedly fled from agents in a vehicle, then on foot, before barricading himself inside a home in Vado, ICE said. Agents made several attempts to persuade him to come out but he refused; the agents br

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