Illegal migrant Jorge Rios, 33, is charged with rape, kidnapping and murder in New Jersey

The man arrested in the rape and strangulation of a New Jersey nanny is a Honduran national illegally present in the U.S., it has been revealed.

Jorge Rios, 33, was arrested in a raid early on Sunday at his home in Jersey City and charged with felony murder, kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault in the killing of Carolina Cano.

Cano was found dead in a lake in Lincoln Park on March 24 after police say she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted.

Rios allegedly strangled Cano to death and then dumped her body in a lake nearby.

Cano was a native of Peru and lived a few blocks from the park, according to WACB-TV, which first reported Rios' immigration status.

Rios has been detained at Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearny.

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Carolina Cano, 45, who was living in Jersey City, was found dead in the lake in Lincoln Park not far from where she lived on March 24 at around 7.30am

The lake in Lincoln Park, (pictured), where Cano was found is surrounded by running trails, roads and tennis courts

Cano, 45, was found dead not far from where she lived at around 7.30am.

Cano, who worked as a nanny, was wearing sneakers when she was found and detectives do not believe that she had been in the water for long.

Her roommate told News 4 that she went out to exercise around 5.30am, as she did most mornings, and never returned home.

The woman, who did not give her name, said: 'It has affected us so much because it happened so suddenly.'

She explained that her family lives in Peru and they are absolutely devastated by her death.

'She was like family because I've known her since she was a little girl,' the roommate said.

'She was a working woman, a good woman. She didn’t bother anyone. She was a woman that was always with God, that’s how she lived.

'She was really a beautiful woman. She had a very beautiful heart.'

The roommate claimed that Cano did not have a boyfriend and came to the U.S. alone. She worked as a nanny, possibly for a family in Passaic County.

Police at the scene of Carolina Cano's death. Police sources said the medical examiner found marks consistent with strangulation

Police sources told News 4 the medical examiner found marks consistent with strangulation, but those marks were not obvious when her body was first recovered.

The lake where Cano was found is surrounded by running trails, roads and tennis courts.

Detectives are looking for security video to see if they can make progress on the case. No arrests have been made yet and further details on the investigation have not been released.

Her neighbor Frankie Ramos said he knew something was wrong when she didn't show up at church.

'My wife, she call the hospital. everybody was looking for her, you know. Desperately,' he told News 4.

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