A man who was arrested last month for allegedly chaining two children at their ankles inside a Fairfax County, Virginia, home is an illegal immigrant who was deported under the Trump administration before returning to the U.S., according to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin.
Franklin Viera Guevara, 29, along with his 47-year-old girlfriend Wedni Del Cid Rodriguez, were charged with two counts of child neglect, two counts of child cruelty, and two counts of abduction after police found two boys — ages 7 and 9 — chained to a post inside Rodriguez’s home, Fox 5 reported. Rodriguez is the mother of the boys.
Melugin reported on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed to Fox News that Guevara is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. ICE said that Guevara was arrested in November 2018 after illegally crossing the southern border near McAllen, Texas, and deported…
