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Illegal gets 12 months for kidnapping girl in Middletown, sex crimes

By Ohio.news on Apr 11, 2024

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MIDDLETOWN—An illegal immigrant who kidnapped a 15-year-old girl in Middletown and committed sex crimes has been sentenced to 12 months in jail in Virginia. 


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Cruz’s abduction of the Honduran 15-year-old, with whom he was living in Middletown, and absconding to Virginia with her for sex, came just weeks before Fermin Garcia-Gutierrez, of Mexico,
shot and killed Fernando Oviedo. Garcia-Gutierrez had previously been deported seven times. 

Cruz also faces charges in Butler County.