A GPS device on a man facing deportation helped track down a teenage girl's rapist, according to police.
Escondido Police said Wenceslao Mendez, 34, raped his cousin's 15-year-old stepdaughter.
Investigators believe Mendez entered the victim's home in the 500 block of West Ninth Street in Escondido and forced her into a back bedroom, where he raped the girl before fleeing. Detectives later determined the suspect was a cousin of the girl's stepmother but that the victim had never met him before.
Police later worked with an agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to locate Mendez at his home in the 1100 block of South Escondido Boulevard, where he was arrested.
Another suspect -- a 22-year-old alleged would-be burglar -- facing a deportation hearing was arrested in Escondido earlier this month.
And earlier this week, Escondido Police came under fire by civil rights activists about their work with ICE agents.
