A federal grand jury has indicted a Mexican man in Chattanooga, alleging he illegally reentered the country and failed to register as a sex offender, court records said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents found Jorge Gonzalez-Lopez in the jurisdiction of Chattanooga’s federal court around April 7, according to a federal complaint.
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He was previously removed from the country around May 7, 2010, following an Oklahoma rape conviction involving a 12-year-old victim in 2009, the complaint said. The office found no evidence indicating he entered the country legally after the prior removal.
Before his roughly 20-minute initial court appearance on May 5, Gonzalez-Lopez was in the custody of the Hamilton County Jail, court records said. No verifiable mugshot or online county court records appeared matching his name.