‘Stranger Rape’ Suspect in Suburban Va. Attack Is Illegal Alien with Lengthy Record
“Asking to be deported so he could go home” – but local officials block ICE enforcement, while the current administration ties officers’ hands
By Andrew R. Arthur on November 27, 2024
In the local news section of the Washington Post over the weekend was an article headlined: “A man convicted of exposure returns to W&OD Trail to rape, police say”. The suspect is one Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, a 31-year-old Honduran national, though you have to get 11 paragraphs into the article to find that fact, and two more to discover he’s illegally in the United States. By the way, he also has more than one prior and they’re mostly all disturbing, raising the question of why he’s still here.
The Alleged Attack
The Post described that incident as follows:
Officers arrested Navarette Romero around 9 p.m. Monday in a parking lot in the 700 block of Station Street, where he had the cellphone of the woman who reported being raped, according to court records. Police said she was walking along the trail after leaving a bar in downtown Herndon when Navarette Romero grabbed her, forced her to the ground and assaulted her.
Fox News, in its reporting on the case, expounds on the facts of that offense:
The victim told police that Romero brazenly grabbed her and forced her to the ground where he proceeded to rape her.
Thankfully, the victim was able to fight off Romero and run away to get help. Police were able to locate Romero shortly after the attack.
The alleged victim and Navarette Romero didn’t know each other, and Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard claims it’s the first “stranger rape” her department has investigated in her 12 years on the job.
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