The United States Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Border Patrol Station arrested a previously deported sex offender shortly after 9 p.m. on Thursday.

The arrest marks the 28th sex offender caught by El Centro Sector in the fiscal year 2018, as reported by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Border Patrol Agents arrested a 43-year Mexican national identified as Maximo Flores-Lezaman, a previously convicted sex offender after he illegally entered the United States approximately five miles west of the Calexico Point of Entry. Record checks revealed a felony conviction in April of 2002 in California for Sex with a Minor and was sentenced to one year in prison and three years’ probation. After completing his sentence, he was deported back to Mexico.

Flores-Lezaman will remain in federal custody pending prosecution for violation of criminal law.

Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.) You can follow him on Twitter. He can be reached at robertrarce@gmail.com