The illegal Venezuelan immigrant charged this week with sexually assaulting a minor is being held in a Virginia prison, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says.

ICE spokesperson James Covington released a statement Wednesday night on the arrest of Renzo Mendoza Montes. 

“On Feb. 22, 2024, the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, in Rustburg, Virginia, arrested Mendoza for indecent liberties with a child under thirteen years of age and carnal knowledge of a child thirteen to fourteen years of age without force,” Covington wrote in the statement.

University of Georgia police found the body of 22-year-old Laken Riley in a forested area behind Lake Herrick around 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 22, after a friend called authorities to report that she left for a run Thursday morning and never returned.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on patrol in California. (The Orange County Register/ZUMApress.com)

Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela living in an apartment building that sits on the edge of the park where Riley was running, allegedly murdered the aspiring nurse in what UGA Police Chief Jeffrey Clark described as a “crime of opportunity.”

The 26-year-old suspect illegally crossed into the United States through El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released into the U.S. via parole, three ICE and DHS, sources told Fox News.

Fox News Digital’s Stepheny Price contributed to this report.