On June 2, 2006, Manuel Garcia Ramos, 53 years of age and formerly of Farmersville, plead no contest to one count of 288(a), A LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS ACT UPON A CHILD UNDER 14, and to one count of 261(a)(2) FORCIBLE RAPE. According to the police reports, when the seven year old victim came home from school on March 19, 1984, the defendant threw her on the bed, digitally penetrated her and forcibly raped her. The victim was injured so extensively that she required surgery to repair the damage.

Investigators, at the time, determined that the defendant took a bus to Mexico within hours of committing the crime. It is presumed that he had been in Tecate, Mexico for the last twenty three years. On May 17, 2006 Sgt.Mike Marquez of the Farmersville Police Department was notified by United States Border Patrol, Agent Escobedo that his agency had the defendant in custody. Sgt. Marquez traveled to the Imperial Beach Border Patrol Office and transported the defendant back to the Tulare County Main Jail.

The case was prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Ruth McKee of the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office and investigated by Florencio Camarillo of the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office and by
Sgt. Mike Marquez of the Farmersville Police Department. The defendant is scheduled to be sentenced on July 26, 2006 in Department 11.


Contact Person: Carol Turner, Assistant District Attorney, (559) 733-6411