A U.S. Border Patrol agent faces three counts of sexual indecency with a minor in connection with three incidents last fall, according to the criminal complaint against him.
Mission Police officials confirmed Juan Pablo Quintanilla surrendered to police earlier this week and faced a municipal judge to formally be charged with three counts of indecency with child, sexual contact, related to an outcry made by the victim and her family.
Quintanilla, 42, of Mission, was booked into county jail on three counts of the charge Wednesday and released on a $90,000 bond the same day, jail officials stated.
Authorities spoke with the victim who then told of at least three instances during which Quintanilla allegedly touched the minor at her home during a three-month period beginning some time in August 2020.
During the first incident, weeks before school began in September, the victim told authorities she was on her living room couch watching television with Quintanilla, when he allegedly began “massaging her feet and after a short time,” began moving his hands up her legs.
The victim said Quintanilla “slipped his hands through the inside of her clothes and began touching” her privates, but did not “feel penetration,” according to the complaint. The victim said Quintanilla additionally groped her breasts another 3-5 minutes, according to the complaint.
In another instance where the victim said she was in the living room, Quintanilla began touching her feet and allegedly placed her feet on his penis. Despite her moving away from him, the victim stated Quintanilla “began massaging her feet again and moving her feet around his penis,” the complaint states.
In the third alleged incident, the victim stated sometime in September, at around 2:30 a.m. during a family gathering, Quintanilla allegedly walked into the victim’s room and asked why she wasn’t outside with the family.
As Quintanilla was asking the minor questions, he allegedly began massaging her legs, and eventually touched her underneath her clothes, despite her demands he stop.
“(The victim) stated she asked (Quintanilla) to leave about eight times,” the document states. “(She) stated (Quintanilla) would walk out of the bedroom and walk right back in and ask her to stay for one more minute,” the complaint states. “(She) stated she insisted for him to leave until he finally left. (She) stated she cried the whole night.”
U.S. Border Patrol officials on Friday confirmed Quintanilla’s arrest on Wednesday, but declined any further information, only to say Quintanilla was stationed in the Rio Grande Valley Sector.
“The Rio Grande Valley Sector is committed to cooperating with any criminal or administrative investigation of alleged misconduct involving Border Patrol personnel, on or off duty,” the statement from Border Patrol states. “CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility and the United States Border Patrol are fully cooperating with the investigation.”
If convicted of the charges, all second-degree felonies, Quintanilla faces up to 20 years in prison.
