MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore. (AP) — State prosecutors’ failure to arraign a sex-crimes suspect within 36 hours of his arrest forced his release from jail.
The East Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/n6pssg ) 26-year-old Manuel Camarena-Villanueva allegedly confessed to inappropriately touching the bottoms of two young children at a local pool.
He was charged with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and three counts of harassment. The sex-abuse charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction of 6 years, 3 months.
Camarena-Villanueva was booked into the county jail, but was not arraigned within 36 hours of his arrest.
