Marin Man Accused in Sex Assault of Child Extradited From Guatemala

SAN RAFAEL, CA — A man who fled to Guatemala from Marin County after his 2014 arrest for allegedly sexually assaulting a young child in San Rafael is back in custody, San Rafael police said Wednesday.

San Rafael police Lt. Alan Piombo said detectives from the San Rafael Police Department met FBI agents and a Marin County District Attorney inspector at the San Francisco International Airport Tuesday, where they took custody of 31-year-old former San Rafael resident Marco Abiagail Vicente-Gonzalez.

According to Piombo, Vicente-Gonzalez fled the United States sometime in 2015, after he was released from jail pending trial on charges that he sexually assaulted a young person known to him. At the time, he was ordered to surrender his passport but still fled, Piombo said.

The alleged sexual assault of the young victim — whose identity has been kept confidential by authorities — was reported by family members in 2014 to Child and Family Services, which in turn reported the incident to the San Rafael Police Department.

When San Rafael police learned Vicente-Gonzalez was back in Guatemala, they sought assistance from the Marin County District Attorney’s Office and the FBI to see to his return to the U.S. to face charges on the alleged sex crimes.

Vicente-Gonzalez was extradited on a federal warrant and was booked Tuesday at the Marin County Jail on the local warrant, Piombo said.