An illegal Venezuelan migrant who allegedly raped his boss’s 14-year-old daughter while living in the family’s basement in Colorado was only jailed for eight days, forcing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to track him down on the streets, The Post has learned.
Jesus Alberto Pereira Castillo, 20, posted a $5,000 bond on Nov. 27, eight days after being arrested, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. ICE had filed a detainer with the sheriff’s office while he was still in custody, but it was denied.
According to Homeland Security sources, the feds had to search for him in the community before apprehending him at an undisclosed later date. Court documents show that he was in ICE custody by December.
Castillo, who is currently detained in an ICE detention center in Denver and has a deportation order from an immigration judge, will most likely be flown directly back to Venezuela after the Trump administration resumed deportation flights to the country.
President Nicolás Maduro’s regime had blocked one-way tickets to the South American country for nearly a year.
According to sources, Castillo will most likely be able to board one of those flights before his sexual assault case is resolved.
Castillo was apprehended on November 19 by Denver cops after fleeing for nearly three months, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities were called to the house on August 29, the same night Castillo allegedly “forced himself on the 14-year-old” girl and sexually assaulted her for 10 minutes.
According to court documents, the young victim repeatedly kicked Castillo in order to get him to stop. When police arrived, they discovered the victim “shaken up” and crying.
She was later taken to the hospital and treated for injuries sustained during the rape.
However, Castillo “left the residence before deputies arrived,” the sheriff’s office previously stated.
Castillo crossed the border illegally into El Paso, Texas, in 2023, but was quickly released by border agents who didn’t have enough space to hold him, according to Homeland Security sources.
The Venezuelan migrant informed border agents that he was traveling to Orlando. Castillo, on the other hand, ended up in Colorado, where he was arrested in May for allegedly possessing forgery/counterfeiting and larceny tools, according to sources who previously told The Post.
He then made his way to Aurora, Colorado, where he lived in his car before starting work for his alleged victim’s father, according to court records.
He was offered three months of sleeping on a blow-up mattress in the family’s basement in order to afford his own housing, and he had been there for two weeks before the alleged rape, according to court documents.
Since December 2022, Denver has received 40,000 migrants, the highest per capita in the country.
With the influx of newcomers came the rise of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua in the sanctuary city and its neighboring suburb of Aurora, where the gang unleashed terror, including violent takeovers of multiple apartment buildings.
During a hearing on Capitol Hill this week, Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston argued that his city is not a safe haven for illegal immigrants, despite local cops releasing criminal migrants into the community without informing ICE.
Instead, he described it as a “welcoming” city for everyone.
