PUERTO RICO
Yahoo! News
By DANICA COTO
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. authorities in Puerto Rico said Tuesday they have arrested a Roman Catholic priest on charges including sexual trafficking of minors in the first federal case of its kind in the U.S. territory.
Ivan Ortiz, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said 58-year-old Israel Berrios was a priest in the Diocese of Caguas, south of the capital of San Juan. He said the priest was arrested in the northern town of Naranjito.
Ortiz said the investigation is ongoing and that more arrests are possible. Authorities have not yet given details of the case.
Puerto Rico prosecutors also filed charges of lewd acts against Berrios.
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