Juan Miguel Medrano Arrested for Holding Step teenage daughter captive
Juan Miguel Medrano has been arrested found hiding in a closet of a relatives Brownsville trailer. Medrano was being sought for the unlawful restraint and abandonment of his 14 year old step daughter.
BROWNSVILLE - Brownsville police arrested a man wanted for holding holding his 14-year-old stepdaughter captive for a month and a half.
They’d been searching for Juan Miguel Medrano for the past week.
He’s scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning on several charges, including aggravated sexual assault of a child and unlawful restraint. (News Channel 5)
UPDATE (10/10/06): Captive’s stepfather held without bond
October 10, 2006 — Bond has been denied for Juan Miguel Medrano Jr., a fugitive accused of holding his teenage stepdaughter captive for 45 days in his travel-trailer home on Thomas Street.
A disheveled Medrano, 54, appeared Monday morning before Brownsville Municipal Judge Phil A. Bellamy who arraigned him on one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child, one count of unlawful restraint/endangerment and one count of child abandonment. (Brownsville Herald)