Couple arrested for parental abduction

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office recently arrested an area couple who are wanted in Las Vegas for abducting their own children to avoid possible abuse charges.

At 11:20 p.m. on Jan. 27 a Lake County Sheriff’s Deputy on patrol spotted what he described as suspicious activity in the truck parking lot of the Truckstops of America in unincorporated Russell.

Investigation by the deputy showed that a female identified as Maria Rosaline Malagon-Castillo, 40, of Pleasant Prairie, Wis., had a 2007 outstanding arrest warrant out of Las Vegas for non-custodial parental abduction that had occurred in 2006.

Further investigation showed the male later identified as Victor Manuel Ruiz-Garcia, 39, was also wanted by Las Vegas Metro Police for the same 2006 non-custodial parental abduction. Officials determined that Ruiz-Garcia, an over-the-road truck driver, had a fake Nevada commercial driver’s license, because his had been suspended.

Both children related to the Las Vegas arrest warrants, and listed as missing through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, were located by Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies in the 7800 block of 88th Street in Pleasant Prairie.

Lake County Sheriff’s detectives conducted an investigation and found that both children were deemed wards of the State of Nevada in 2006. The parents fled Nevada with the two children to avoid an investigation by Las Vegas police into an allegation of drug abuse of Malagon-Castillo during pregnancy.

The children, ages 14 and 9, were turned over to a family member with the permission of the Clark County, Nevada, Department of Family Services pending review of the case in Nevada.

Ruiz-Garcia and Malagon-Castillo were remanded to the Lake County Jail on no bond pending extradition to Nevada.


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