The U.S. Border Patrol Friday announced the arrests of two ex-cons who were allegedly in the country illegally, including a man convicted in Riverside County of voluntary manslaughter for stabbing another man during a fight outside the body shop where he worked.
Fabian Gonzalez-Ramos, 34, was sentenced to four years in prison for the Aug. 21, 2010, stabbing of Manuel Lara, and was ordered removed from the country by an immigration judge last year, according to the Border Patrol.
Gonzalez-Ramos was picked up by Border Patrol agents around 4:45 p.m. Thursday about a mile west of the Calexico Port of Entry in Imperial County and was being held in custody “pending criminal prosecution,” according to a Border Patrol statement.
A Riverside County prosecutor’s trial brief states that Gonzalez-Ramos approached his boss at the shop, then got into a confrontation and fight with Lara, who was a friend of the supervisor.
Lara went to a hospital and was treated and later discharged, but died of his injuries at his home two days later, according to court documents.
Gonzalez-Ramos fled to Mexico, but returned to the United States and turned himself in. He was subsequently charged with murder, but a jury acquitted him of that count and convicted him of voluntary manslaughter in 2013.
Border officials said they also arrested a second ex-con at the Calexico Port of Entry shortly after midnight Friday.
Daniel Rodriguez-Castellanos, 40, was convicted by an unspecified California court in 2000 for sex with a minor and was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 36 months probation. Border Patrol officials said Rodriguez-Castellanos is the 33rd sex offender arrested by agents from the El Centro sector during the 2018 fiscal year.