Police Beat by Tom GeyerSex offender, illegal alien keeps showing up
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 3:43 pm
As if Davenport Police Detective Rich Tubbs and the other members of the Scott County Sex Offender Task Force that encompasses nine law enforcement agencies don’t have enough to do, now they are dealing with a case that certainly indicates a flaw somewhere in the system.
The arrest Friday of registered sex offender Ruben Perales is at least the fourth time Scott County officials have dealt with this guy. He is being held this time for posing as a cop and trying to extort money from other sex offenders. He also has an immigration hold on him, which means he’s on track to be deported to Mexico, again. See where this is going?
In 1991 Perales was convicted of indecent contact with a male child below the age of 13. He was convicted in 1993 of sex abuse third-degree with a male child below the age of 13. According to Det. Tubbs, Perales was deported after his prison sentence.
“He was deported in 1997,” Tubbs said.
In 2002, Tubbs said he got a tip that Perales was working at a kiosk at NorthPark Mall. Tubbs went out there and sure enough, Perales was there. Tubbs arrested him and charged him with failure to register as a sex offender. Perales was convicted of the charge, and then the Feds nailed him with charges of unlawful entry by an alien after deportation and false representation of U.S. citizenship. He pleaded guilty to the charges Jan. 27, 2003, and was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison.
Perales was released from the federal prison at Yazoo City, Miss., in Feb. of 2008, and was again deported.
Yet, Mr. Perales, now age 39, shows up again in Scott County and attempted to extort money out of other sex offenders by posing as a cop and telling them they need to pay $75 because of errors with their offender registry.
Perales is charged with extortion, failure to register as a sex offender second offense, living within 2000 feet of a school, and impersonating a cop. Immigration also has a hold on him.
There are 283 people listed on the Scott County Sex Offender Registry as of Thursday, April 9. Tubbs is trying to find out why this guy keeps coming back to Davenport.
“My guess is he has connections here,” Tubbs said. “But we really don’t know that answer. I want to find out.”
It took some serious digging on the federal web site Pacer which has federal court documents. Perales’ last case was back in 2002 and 2003 so I’m surprised there was anything at all. Old documents are purged quickly. According to those documents, Perales came here with his family when he was 4. But he’s a convicted felon, so that blows any green card chances he may have had.
The other question, how is it he is getting back in the U.S. given all the new security after 9-11?
As Tubbs said, “Like a bad penny, this guy keeps turning up.”
Tags: current case, illegal alien, Sex offender
April 10th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Ok…. so why even keep spending the money to imprison him? WTF???
And I’m just saying here….check out those eyebrows! Does he consider himself transgender maybe and that’s why he is able to continue to hide out??? Think about it…
April 12th, 2009 at 9:26 am
I wondered what happened to Rubin. I haven’t seen him since I went to F.L. Smart in 1983.
April 12th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
This is where the law that Bill O’Reilly was pushing to get passed last years would help. First time sex offenders like this should receive 25 years…the second offense is execution. When you consider the long term-multi generational effects on the victim…maybe first time execution is a better choice.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:44 am
Oops! Ruben instead of Rubin.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:14 am
In Mexico, I was disgusted with many things. One was the aggressive pimping of children sex. I threw a handful of change one direction and ran the other, to get away from more then a dozen belt high children trying to sale me their sister,”she a virgin”! On the other side of the busy street was a man in a carriage,”Mister, you not want girls? I take you to boystown!” I was ticked and told him so. He as an adault knows better then selling humans. Fortunately, the pimping seemed only agressive on streets close to the border. I visited the interior.
Another worry was the long lines of beggers outside the Cathedrals. A third was the debree blowing in the wind, litter and garbage. Then there were the communist, today it would be the drug cartel I barely escaped being kidnapped and held for ransom,”all Americans are rich and can afford ransom”. Their truck blocked the highway, machinegun armed bearded men boarded our bus looking for ” a run away comrad”. I was the only American on board. My guide told them I came from a poor family of many.
Ironic, the richest man in the world is an Arab, living in Mexico.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:13 am
like jennifer said how the f is this creep getting back into the states with all the supposed top notch security….and im a daily mall person and dont idiots look up somebodys record before they hire them….the mall is a place were kids gather togeather and walk around and go shoping…..and then come to find out there is a sex offender at the mall thats like a sex offender being at a daycare somewere they shouldnot be………..
April 14th, 2009 at 7:14 am
like jennifer said how the f is this creep getting back into the states with all the supposed top notch security….and im a daily mall person and dont idiots look up somebodys record before they hire them….the mall is a place were kids gather togeather and walk around and go shoping…..and then come to find out there is a sex offender at the mall thats like a sex offender being at a daycare somewere they shouldnot be………..something needs to be done about that
April 14th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I say round up the ilegals take them by boat to southern mexico and drop them off 5 miles off shore,and tell them if they show up in the U.S. again it will be 10 miles.That might get there attention.
October 20th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Put a GPS chip in their backsides and keep track by satelite, for Gods sake its amazing to me, we can blow holes in the moon and no one can keep this poor excuse for hispanic DNA off our streets..We on a conservative average have over 250 thousand convicted sex offenders (criminal alien) being released back onto our streets over and over again, when is someone going to get the kahunas to make these freaks stop feeding of our citizens?