A 62-year-old Port Chester, New York man was jailed on a New York warrant Wednesday evening.
Virgilio Orlando Tovar contacted Sulphur Springs Police Officer Edward Jaime at 7:23 p.m. Feb. 9, 2022 at the police station about documents he received from his probation officer that he needed signed by an officer.
He provided his New York driver’s license, which SSPD used to conduct a records check. A communications operator reported the criminal history check showed Virgilio Orlando Tovar to be have an active warrant for his arrest out of New York. The New York Police Department warrant was confirmed and Tovar was taken into custody; the van he arrived in was left parked in front of the police station.
The 62-year-old Port Chester, New York man was booked into Hopkins County jail at 9:30 p.m. Feb. 9 on the NYPD warrant for sexual assault-carnal abuse of a person-sexual abuse. Tovar was held in Hopkins County jail Thursday on the charge, according to jail and police reports.
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