Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement working alongside the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department arrested an illegal alien wanted on sex crime charges involving a minor in Virginia.
David Perez-Teofani, a 35-year-old Mexican national, was taken into custody near the National Mall on August 20. According to Homeland Security Investigations, Perez-Teofani had previously been charged in Fairfax County, Virginia, with felony indecent liberties and aggravated sexual battery involving a child under 13.
Perez-Teofani is a repeat immigration offender with a long history of illegal entries and removals. ICE officials confirmed that he initially entered the U.S. on an unknown date and location without inspection by immigration officers. He was first apprehended in September 2014 and deported to Mexico in November of the same year.
Just days after his first removal, Perez-Teofani attempted to reenter the United States illegally by impersonating a U.S. passport holder at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in California. He was arrested again, and ICE reinstated his removal order, sending him back to Mexico on November 23, 2014.
Despite those removals, Perez-Teofani managed to illegally return to the United States again at an unknown date. In January 2024, he was arrested by the Fairfax County Police Department and charged with multiple child sex crimes. ICE lodged an immigration detainer with the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, but the facility did not honor the request, releasing him back into the community.
“David Perez-Teofani caused a scene by screaming and crying crocodile tears for everyone to see at the scene of his arrest, but we have no sympathy for accused pedophiles and immigration offenders,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “The previous administration may have been fine with these alien offenders roaming the streets of our nation’s capital, but under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, we have been empowered to clean up the streets and remove these criminals.”
Perez-Teofani is now in ICE custody pending removal proceedings. This comes in the weeks after President Trump announced his plan to make the Capitol both safe and beautiful again.
