After about a week on the run, Jesus Rocha-Alvarez, 33, was arrested by the Hays County Sheriff’s Office in connection to the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.
On Nov. 4 at approximately 5:10 p.m., the Hays County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a sexual assault of a child at an address in Buda. Deputies arrived and received information that a 14-year-old child was sexually assaulted by a male subject living at the residence where she was residing. The suspect, Rocha-Alvarez, was not at the residence when deputies arrived. The Criminal Investigation Division investigated the incident and a warrant for Sexual Assault of a Child was issued by Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Beth Smith.
The Hays County Sheriff’s Office’s Repeat Offender Unit tracked Rocha-Alvarez to an apartment complex located in the 300 block of East Slaughter Lane in Austin and arrested the man Sunday morning at about 5:45 a.m.
