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GEARY COUNTY – A Mexican national accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus on I-70 in Kansas has entered a guilty plea in Geary County District Court.
In September, police arrested Tomas Martinez – Maldonado, 38, in Kansas City, Missouri, where authorities alerted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ICE has said previously that Maldonado is a priority for deportation when his case in Kansas is completed.
Martinez-Maldonado has been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. nine other times since 2003.
Three U.S. Republican senators had demanded in a letter that the Department of Homeland Security provide immigration records for Martinez-Maldonado.
He is scheduled for sentencing July 17.