A previously deported migrant suspected of crimes across the US since returning illegally has been busted in Indiana after a teenage girl was stabbed at her brother’s baseball game, according to cops.
Dimas Gabriel Yanez, 26, was arrested Sunday “after an intense manhunt,” a day after a 14-year-old girl was stabbed in the hand with a butcher-style knife at the game in Lowell, Indiana, Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. said on Facebook.
The attacker also tried to stab the girl’s mom when she “tried to help her daughter,” who has since been discharged from the hospital following the “random” attack, authorities said.
Yanez was quickly identified as a suspect, with the sheriff’s department warning that he should be “considered armed and dangerous” in a series of appeals over the weekend.
He was finally found Sunday running through a cornfield in the southern part of the county and arrested “after an intense manhunt and an eventual foot pursuit,” the department said.
“It’s believed he was in the process of cutting his hair to change his appearance just before he was arrested,” the sheriff said — with photos showing the thick locks Yanez had in earlier wanted images now largely hacked off as he was led away in handcuffs.
The sheriff also said that “Investigators have learned Yanez had been deported to Honduras in 2018 and may have been engaged in criminal activity across the United States since returning to the country illegally.
“The US Department of Homeland Security has been notified of his arrest,” the department said.
The update did not elaborate on earlier crimes the suspect is being eyed for, nor the locations.
Yanez is in custody at the Lake County jail. “The investigation is still ongoing and we will provide more details as they become available,” the sheriff said.