Overview

• ICE says agents arrested Ezequiel Cruz-Rodriguez on Tuesday at a San Diego home where his DACA-recipient wife operates an in-home daycare.
• DHS and court records cite a 1996 conviction for a lewd act on a child under 14 and additional convictions including sexual battery, firearm offenses, DUI and robbery.
• Officials report prior removals in 1996, 2003 and 2012, and say he later reentered the United States unlawfully at an unknown time; he now faces a federal illegal reentry charge.
• DHS describes him as affiliated with the Logan Heights gang, and 1998 court records list him as a registered sex offender, though he does not appear in the current registry.
• California’s Department of Social Services says the daycare is under investigation, and ICE declined to release its name, which local media identified separately.