U.S. marshals are looking for a convicted sex offender from El Salvador, and they are asking the public for information that can lead to his arrest.
Pastor Omar Medrano-Pereira, 21, was convicted in Montgomery County in 2010 for a sex offense against a minor that required him to register as a sex offender.
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Medrano is wanted out of Montgomery County for violating the conditions of his probation on the sex offense charge, and he’s wanted out of Prince George’s County for failing to register as a sex offender. He has been on the run since May 2011.
Supervisory Inspector Matt Burke of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force says the U.S. Marshals Service takes fugitive sex offender cases very seriously.
“We definitely need Examiner readers’ help in locating Medrano, or preferably Medrano sees this article and turns himself in to us,” Burke said.
Medrano is originally from El Salvador, law enforcement officials said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said they have no record of Medrano, meaning he’s potentially in the country unlawfully.
“That’s definitely something that our offices will want to investigate once he comes into custody,” said ICE spokeswoman Nicole Navas.
Investigators believe Medrano is still in the Washington area, but he may be moving from house to house in multifamily dwellings, making it difficult to catch up with him.
Medrano is known to have lived in the Hyattsville, Riverdale and Langley Park areas.
He’s listed as being 5-foot-8 and 150 pounds.
Anyone with information regarding Medrano’s whereabouts should call the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force at 301-489-1717.
Tips from readers of The Washington Examiner have led directly to the arrests of 45 fugitives. Earlier his month, an alert reader spotted a convicted kidnapper, who had been on the run for two years, staying at a resort in the mountains of western Maryland.
