A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts. Content-warning descriptions of abuse Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent Bart Conrad Yager, 39, was indicted in Jul 2025 on 24 felony charges, including 10 counts of child sex trafficking, five drug-related felonies, and two counts of fraud. He was investigated for a now-closed Tucson rape case ten years ago, but CBP never investigated

Arizona CBP port officer Aaron Thomas Mitchell, 30, was sentenced to 27 years in prison in March 2025, after being convicted on federal charges of abducting and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old Douglas middle school student in 2022. Mitchell now faces state charges in Cochise County.

Tucson Sector CBP agent Efren Lopez Cornejo was sentenced in Jan 2025 to lifetime parole with NO JAIL TIME after being charged with 14 felonies, including child molestation, sexual abuse of a minor and sexual conduct with a minor. The two victims were family members. One was 9 when the abuse started

Tony L. Barker, a top official with CBP, resigned in 2023 after being accused by multiple female employees of sexual harassment. Barker, who was the acting Chief of CBP's Operations Directorate, allegedly pressured female employees for sex and retaliated when his advances were rejected.

ICE deportation officer Blake Northway of Oregon was sentenced to 25 years in prison on sodomy and incest charges for sexually abusing an underage female relative for more than nine years, between March 2009 and September 2018.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Luis Uribe was indicted in Dec 2025 on 11 counts. He committed multiple “gunpoint sexual assaults” and robberies of women in the Chicago area, who offered him money and referenced their children as they begged him to stop. Uribe preyed on sex workers.

Border Patrol Agent Andrew Smithson of San Diego was arrested in 2016 after sexually assaulting Brawley Police Det. Kali Orff. Orff woke up to find Smithson had pulled her pants down and was sexually assaulting her. She punched him in the face and called 911. Smithson was protected by local police.

Customs and Border Protection officer Scott James Rocky, 57, of Center Line, MI was charged in Feb 2025 with possession of thousands of child sexual abuse images and videos. FBI agents raided his home and found an external hard drive containing the videos, an FBI special agent wrote in an affidavit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Harry Marvelle Peless III, 51, of Newport, MI, was arrested in Jul 2025 after messaging an undercover agent posing as a 13-year-old girl. Marvelle sent obscene material to and made requests for sexual activity to the person he believed was an underage girl.

US Border Patrol agent Steven Charles Holmes, 33, of Arizona was convicted in 2023 of 11 felonies after strangling and raping several women.

US Border Patrol agent Roy Ramirez Jr., 32, of Harlingen, TX, was arrested in 2020 by McAllen Police and charged with sexual assault for forcing one of his subordinates at work to perform oral sex on him.

Dana Ray Thornhill, a Border Patrol Agent from Arizona, was sentenced in 2020 to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to repeatedly molesting multiple children between 1995 to 2007. Thornill, a 20-year veteran of CBP, was first arrested at age 13 for sexually assaulting a younger girl.

Jeremy Tyler Cole, a Border Patrol Agent from Arizona, was sentenced in 2015 for molesting three girls ages five, 12 and 14.

Spencer Allen Cox, 24, a Border Patrol agent from Uvalde, TX, was arrested in 2020 for soliciting a minor for sex and sending obscene materials to her via Snapchat. He was wearing his CBP uniform when he solicited the underaged victim, who had already told him her age.

Vernon Lee Millican, a Border Patrol agent from Leakey, TX, was sentenced in 2020 to 50 years in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a female relative and filming it. The abuse started when the victim was only six years old.

Michael William Barends, 43, a Border Patrol supervisor from Alpine, TX, was arrested in 2020 for continuous sexual assault of a child. The abuse began in 2015 when the victim was 13 years old.

Jason Christopher Davis, 48, a Border Patrol supervisor from Las Cruces, New Mexico, was sentenced in 2021 to 15 years in prison for producing a child sexual abuse video of a five-year-old girl and then uploading it.

Alexander Steven Back, an ICE employee from Bloomington, MN was arrested in Nov 2025 for coercion of a minor. He attempted to meet up with what he thought was a 17-year-old girl for sex and was immediately arrested. He now faces federal charges.

Salvador Contreras, 50, a senior Border Patrol agent from Del Rio, TX, was arrested in a 2017 sting after traveling to meet who he believed to be the mother of two young girls. He believed he had been chatting with a mother who would give him access to her girls, ages 8 and 14, to have sex with them

Kyle Elden Mrofka, 30, a supervisory Border Patrol Agent from Arizona, was sentenced in 2019 to three years probation with no jail time for repeatedly sexually assaulting the 13-year-old daughter of a family friend after plying her with alcohol. The victim's family did not support the plea deal.

John Jacob Olivas, 48, an ICE agent from Riverside, CA, was sentenced in 2023 to a life sentence for rape and “systematic torture of women”. He repeatedly brandished his ICE credentials to assert to his victims that he was "above a cop" and "invincible" and threatened to have their children removed.

Andrew Golobic, 53, an ICE supervisor from Cincinnati, OH, was sentenced in March 2025 to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing and coercing female victims under his supervision in the Blue Ash ICE office's "alternatives to detention" program.

Samuel Saxon, 47, the Assistant Field Office Director of ICE ERO in Cincinnati, was charged in Dec 2025 with strangulation and domestic violence. His partner also suffered a broken pelvis and broken nose. What's left out of most stories is that she was 18 years old when they started dating in 2018.

Koby Don Williams, 49, an ICE officer from Ellensburg, WA was sentenced in 2024 to 11 years in prison after arranging to meet what he thought was a 13-year-old sex worker at a hotel. He showed up with Viagra, $4,000 in cash, and his ICE badge. He was immediately arrested.

Kevin Taylor, an ICE agent from Riley, MI, was sentenced in 2023 to 5-15 years in prison for molesting two underage female relatives who were between the ages of 4 and 9 when his abuse began.

Juan Lopez, 48, an ICE agent from Combes, TX, was arrested in 2023 for sexually assaulting a minor over a period of several months.

Timothy Ryan Gregg, 51, an ICE / HSI agent from Eagan, MN, was arrested in June 2025 for enticing a minor and production of child sexual abuse material. Gregg is a supporter of Donald Trump and his archived Parler profile is still online at web.archive.org/web/20210111...

Rodolfo Zuniga, a Border Patrol Agent from San Diego, CA, was sentenced in 2013 for possession of child sexual abuse material and theft of government property. Zuniga was arrested again in 2018 after moving to Laredo, TX and failing to register as a sex offender as required by law.

Ernesto Padron, a Border Patrol Agent from Brownsville, TX, was arrested in 2010 for possession of CSAM. A case backlog meant the statute of limitations expired before he could be tried. In 2020 Padron was hired at a Texas migrant shelter where he worked directly with unaccompanied migrant children

In May 2024, Nereo Mejia Gomez, 41, a Border Patrol Agent from Yuma, AZ, was indicted on multiple counts of producing, possessing, and distributing child sexual abuse material. He was also indicted for possession of an unregistered short-barreled rifle. Gomez faces up to 100 years in prison.