Previously-Deported Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Teen Girl At A Park

A previously deported illegal immigrant is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl at an Idaho park, The Daily Wire has learned.

Authorities say 29-year-old Jose Lozano-Flores watched the girl while she was paddle boarding at Freedom Park in Star, Idaho, before grabbing her and forcing her into nearby woods on the evening of July 22.

The illegal immigrant threatened to take the girl to Mexico if she spoke up about the attack, according to Idaho News 6.

The Ada County Sheriff’s Office and Star Police located and arrested Lozano-Flores the following day at Quinn’s Pond in Boise, where they found the victim with him inside his vehicle before reuniting her with her family.

The suspect was later taken to the Ada County Jail and charged with felony lewd conduct with a child under 16, felony kidnapping in the first degree, and misdemeanor resisting and obstructing.

Authorities said that the victim didn’t know Lozano-Flores before he attacked her.

Citing “the sensitive nature of this case,” authorities didn’t provide any additional details about the incident, which was reportedly caught on surveillance video.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now urging local police to keep Lozano-Flores off the streets by working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“This criminal illegal alien is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Idaho,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire Monday.

“ICE will work with our partners in Idaho to ensure that he is not released from jail and is never loose in American communities again. When state politicians cooperate with us, we are able to keep criminals out of American neighborhoods,” Bis added.

Lozano-Flores first entered the United States in 2023, when he crossed the border illegally into New Mexico, DHS said. Border Patrol agents swiftly took him into custody before he agreed to be turned back to Mexico.

The Mexican national then crossed the border illegally for a second time at an unknown date and successfully evaded authorities, according to DHS.

ICE has arrested more than 600,000 migrants and deported more than 700,000 illegal aliens since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, according to DHS data recently obtained by The Daily Wire. Sources within ICE say they’re under renewed pressure to increase arrest numbers.