Lars Larson Show: Criminal Alien of the Week Report
April 27, 2026
The “Lars Larson Show: Criminal Alien of the Week Report” in the last week of April 2026 has for northwest regional and national radio listeners and website followers a report on a federal law enforcement identified Mexican national sex-offender, unlawfully present in the country, who assaulted U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Officers. The illegal alien’s criminal case was adjudicated in a U.S. District Court in the state of Washington.
Some background information, on Friday, April 17, 2026 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington (USAOEDW) issued a press release titled “Registered Sex Offender and Mexican National Sentenced to 24 Months Imprisonment for Assault of Federal Law Enforcement Officers” who the subject of interest was identified as Victor Martin Lara-Lopez (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington — Case Number: 4:25-cr-06027):
Here are extended excerpts from USAOEDW’s April 17, 2026 press release on Victor Martin Lara-Lopez:
“.Spokane, Washington – First Assistant United States Attorney Pete Serrano announced that on April 16, 2026, District Court Judge United States District Judge Mary K. Dimke, sentenced Victor Lara-Lopez, age 42, of Pasco, Washington, Washington, to 24 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for assaulting two federal law enforcement officers.
According to court documents and information revealed during the sentencing hearing, in 2022, Lara-Lopez was convicted in the Superior Court of Washington- County of Benton, of molesting a 12 year old child. Lara-Lopez was sentenced to a prison term above the standard range because he held a position of trust over the child at the time of the offense. At the time of this sexual abuse, Lara-Lopez, a citizen of Mexico, was unlawfully residing in the United States. Lara-Lopez served his prison term in the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) and was released back into the community, despite his lack of status and sex offense conviction.
In June of 2025, local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers identified Lara-Lopez as a person residing unlawfully in Pasco, Washington, and sought to arrest him on an administrative warrant. In the early morning hours of June 13, 2025, two ICE officers identified Lara-Lopez in a vehicle near his Pasco residence. The officers, wearing clearly marked law enforcement gear and identifying themselves as law enforcement, approached Lara-Lopez in his vehicle and attempted to execute the warrant and arrest Lara-Lopez. Lara-Lopez refused to turn off his vehicle, provide his name, or exit his vehicle. Both officers stepped on the running board of the vehicle in an attempt to arrest Lara-Lopez. Lara-Lopez then began to drive the vehicle, initially reversing, then driving forward onto the sidewalk, hitting an ICE vehicle with such force that the front bumper was pulled off. Both officers were forced to jump off of the vehicle’s running board to avoid being crushed between Lara-Lopez’s vehicle and an ICE vehicle. Both officers sustained injuries as a result of Lara-Lopez’s conduct. Lara-Lopez fled the scene.
The United States Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation sought and obtained a federal complaint and arrest warrant for Lara-Lopez for two counts of Assault on a Federal Law Enforcement Officer. Lara-Lopez remained whereabouts unknown for a full month, despite efforts by the United States Marshalls Service (USMS), Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI to locate him.
Lara-Lopez was apprehended in his vehicle on July 15, 2025. Lara-Lopez initially refused to exit the vehicle. Two other individuals were located in the vehicle with Lara-Lopez, including a minor child. Lara-Lopez was prohibited from contact with minor children due to his supervision conditions for the prior sex offense conviction. Officers also located fraudulent identification for Lara-Lopez after he was placed into law enforcement custody. Lara-Lopez pled guilty to assaulting both ICE officers on December 2, 2025.
During the sentencing hearing, Judge Dimke noted Lara-Lopez’s history of failing to comply with law enforcement. She advised that Lara Lopez’s refusal to comply with the lawful directives of federal law enforcement officers, and specifically federal immigration officers, put the community, the officers and Lara-Lopez at great risk.
“Lara-Lopez sexually abused a vulnerable, local child. He was permitted to return to our community despite this conviction and his illegal presence in the United States. The ICE officers in this case sought to protect this community by lawfully removing Lara-Lopez from it. This case highlights the importance of ICE’s work in our community. Here, ICE was removing a child sex offender who is not here lawfully from our community – I’d like to thank the ICE officers involved. My office will aggressively continue to pursue people, like Lara-Lopez, who are unlawfully present, who seek to harm members of our community, or who assault federal law enforcement officers who are doing their jobs,” said First Assistant United States Attorney Serrano.
“Law enforcement officers put themselves in harm’s way every day to apprehend dangerous criminals and protect the American people,” said W. Mike Herrington, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Seattle field office. “Mr. Lara-Lopez’s reckless behavior not only injured two federal agents but was particularly egregious in light of his prior conduct exploiting a child from a position of trust. The FBI is committed to holding those who assault federal agents, like Mr. Lara-Lopez, accountable for their actions.”
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Laurel Holland.” – U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington.
For informational purposes the “Criminal Alien of the Week Report” sent via e-mail on April 20, 2026 a copy of the USAOEDW press release on Victor Martin Lara-Lopez to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Public Affairs for the Northwest Region which encompasses the states of Alaska, Oregon and Washington, furthermore, ICE Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.
As of Monday, April 27, 2026 ICE PublicAffairs has not issued a press release in support of ICE Law Enforcement’s role in bringing to justice now federally convicted and sentenced violent Mexican national illegal alien sex-offender Victor Martin Lara-Lopez.
Post sentencing Victor Martin Lara-Lopez (Subject Number: 103095; Booking: 2025-00004294; USM Contract) has remained in the custody of Benton County Jail (BCJ) located in Kennewick, Washington.
In the near future Victor Martin Lara-Lopez faces being transferred into the custody of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) where there are more than 12-thousand Mexican nationals incarcerated in the BOP prison system.
Lars, the last week of April 2026 and another “Criminal Alien of the Week Report” for Lars Larson Show KXL FM 101.1 northwest regional and national radio show listeners and website followers.
David Olen Cross (docfnc) is a reporter on foreign national crime. He is a more than decade long contributor to the “Lars Larson Show: Criminal Alien of the Week Report.” His past crime reporting can be found at http://docfnc.wordpress.com/.
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