CALIFORNIA
Highland News
On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 deputies from the Victorville Police Department received a report of a possible inappropriate sexual relationship between a 14 year old girl and 2 adult men. Further investigation led detectives to a second victim, a 17 year old girl.
The suspects were identified as Victor Callejas-Vargas, 22, of Hesperia, an employee and youth pastor of the Centro Cristiano de Fe Church in Victorville. The second suspect was identified as Jesse Rodolfo Rios,19, of Hesperia, a resident and member of the Centro Cristiano de Fe Church. The two victims are both members of the church.
Investigators conducted interviews with the suspects. Both suspects were subsequently arrested, transported and booked into the High Desert Detention Center. Vargas was booked for sex with a minor three years younger, sex with a minor with the suspect over 21 and the victim under 16 years of age, and oral copulation with a person under 16. Vargas is being held on $100,000 bail. Rios was booked for oral copulation with a person under 18, and sex with a foreign object and is being held on $100,000 bail. Both are scheduled to be arraigned on September 17.
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