CLEVELAND, Ohio — Federal and state agents arrested two Cleveland brothers in a human-trafficking investigation that ended Wednesday with a brief shootout during a raid, officials said. One of the men has a criminal history that includes sexually abusing a 5-year-old, records say.

Reuben Rankin, 34, and Dominique Rankin, 29, were arrested following the raid, Ohio Attorney General’s Office spokesman Steve Irwin said. Charges are pending against both men, Irwin said.

The raid happened about 7 a.m. Wednesday at a home on Dove Avenue and East 127th Street in the city’s Union-Miles neighborhood.

U.S. Homeland Security Investigations agents toting rifles and clad in SWAT gear surrounded the home. Reuben Rankin fired at least one gunshot at the officers, according to law enforcement sources.

The agents returned fire, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Khaalid Walls said. No one was hurt in the exchange.

Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services social workers removed five children from the home following the raid. They are between the ages of 6 months and 3 years old, county spokeswoman Mary Louise Madigan said.

Officials have not released details on the human-trafficking investigation. The case is under investigation by Homeland Security, the Ohio Attorney General Office Task Force and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department. Cleveland police are examining the circumstances surrounding the gunfire between Rankin and the agents.

The arrest of both brothers is just the latest, as both have racked up felony convictions in the past.

A jury found Reuben Rankin guilty in 2006 of two counts of kidnapping. Police said he robbed two employees of an ice cream truck with a gun the previous year. A judge sentenced him to eight years in prison, though released him early in 2013.

He also pleaded guilty in 2006 to witness intimidation. The next year, he also copped to a criminal simulation charge after Garfield Heights police found bootleg CDs, movies and a CD burner in his home, according to court records.

In March 2017, Reuben Rankin went to his then-estranged wife’s home in Garfield Heights and broke out the front door window, according to court filings. He punched her and hit her with a broom handle.

The next month, Reuben Rankin, a former employee of Enterprise Rent-A-Car near Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport, went to the business under the guise of getting his job back. He peeled off a sticker that signified a 2017 Ford Explorer belonged to the business and drove away. He told security he was an employee but was awaiting his photo credentials, according to court records.

In August 2017 he again attacked on his then-estranged wife, according to a Cleveland Heights police report. In that case, the wife said Reuben Rankin tied up her hands and feet, put her in the bathtub and hit her in the face and legs repeatedly until she lost consciousness.

She also said Reuben Rankin ran the bath water and turned her over so she felt like she was drowning, according to the report.

Reuben Rankin pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, abduction, burglary, domestic violence and attempted grand theft for all three incidents. A judge sentenced him to two years in prison. He was released April 26 of this year.

Reuben Rankin’s daughter also called Cleveland police on Oct. 17 for a domestic violence situation involving Reuben Rankin and his wife. The daughter said an argument turned violent and he handed his wife a handgun. The wife threatened to kill the daughter and her mother, according to the report.

Nobody has been charged in that incident.

Dominique Rankin was sentenced to one year in prison in 2017 after to pleading guilty to gross sexual imposition. The victim in the case was a 5-year-old girl, according to the sex offender registry.

Dominique Rankin pleaded guilty in that case to gross sexual imposition and was ordered to register his address with the county sheriff. He failed to do so, and was sentenced in July to two years’ probation.

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