Fugitive Wanted In Sexual Battery of 5-Year-Old Arrested in Cambridge

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Cambridge Police on Wednesday helped the U.S. Marshals Office arrest a Virginia man wanted for sexual battery of a child.

According to the U.S. Marshal's Office, Cambridge Police arrested Merlin Ronan Ordonez, age 52, while at work on Walden Street in Cambridge. Members of the United States Marshals Fugitive Task Force had just missed arresting Ordonez in Marlborough, where he was living, the U.S. Marshal's office said.

According to a press release:

Ordonez was wanted in Fairfax County, Virginia on a warrant from October of 2014. He was charged with Aggravated Sexual Battery of a 5 year old girl. Ordonez fled Virginia after the warrant was issued and relocated in Marlborough, MA. US Marshals investigators in Virginia requested assistance of the Fugitive Task Force in Boston in pinpointing Ordonez’s location in the Marlborough area.

He was charged by Cambridge Police as a fugitive from justice to be removed to Virginia. He is also set to be detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, after illegally immigrating to the U.S. from Honduras, the U.S. Marshal's office said.

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