ICE: Alaska Sex Offender Paid Smugglers $5,000 in Attempt to Obtain Honduran Child

A convicted sex offender from Alaska is accused of paying human smugglers $5,000 to obtain a Honduran mother and her young daughter, intending to claim the child as an unaccompanied minor sponsor after she crossed the Rio Grande into Texas, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Breitbart Texas.

According to the criminal complaint based on an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a registered sex offender from Alaska is alleged to have paid human smugglers $5,000 to deliver a Honduran mother and her daughter to him. According to HSI, the suspect planned to sponsor the child after she successfully crossed the Rio Grande into Texas as an unaccompanied minor.

Prosecutors identified the sex offender as 43-year-old