Sex Offender Charged With Keeping Teenage Girl In Garage Was Free On Immigration Bond

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a man charged with sex crimes against a 14-year-old Santa Clarita girl is a registered sex offender in deportation proceedings who was out on immigration bond.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday 26-year-old Keane Dean was placed in immigration detention in October after serving time for burglary and indecent exposure.

The agency says Dean was released in April after posting a $10,000 bond granted by an immigration judge.

The Philippines native was arrested in Santa Clarita Wednesday after a missing teenager was found in his garage.

Prosecutors say he pleaded not guilty to two felony sex charges.

Meanwhile, relatives of a woman fatally shot on a San Francisco pier told Congress Tuesday they support changing laws that enabled the suspect to remain in the U.S. despite several deportations.