2 MD Rape Suspects Stopped By Customs Officers At Dulles Airport

DULLES, VA — Two men wanted in Maryland for second-degree rape were arrested last week as they waited to board a flight to El Salvador at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested 53-year-old Oscar Armando Hernandez Mata around 4:48 p.m., on Thursday, at the departure gate. Hernandez Mata was wanted on a Montgomery County, Maryland, warrant for felony second-degree rape and sexual abuse of a minor.

Authorities said he was also an alien unlawfully present in the U.S., after an immigration judge ordered him to be expelled from the country in 2006.

On Friday, around 1:56 a.m., CBP officers at Dulles Airport also arrested 53-year-old Carlos Ernesto Osorto Molina, who was wanted in Prince George's County, Maryland, on a warrant for felony second-degree rape.

Molina, who is a U.S. permanent resident, was apprehended as he was being vetted before departing aboard a second flight to El Salvador, according to CBP.

CBP officers transferred Hernandez Mata and Molina to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police.

“The arrests of these two fugitives, accused of rather heinous charges, illustrates Customs and Border Protection’s continued commitment to assist our law enforcement partners in ensuring that victims have a voice, and that fugitives of serious crimes have their day in court,” said Christine Waugh, CBP’s acting area port director at the Area Port of Washington, D.C.