ARIZONA
A former agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was charged in a superseding indictment, unsealed Wednesday in federal court with three counts: a civil rights violation for sexually assaulting and kidnapping a minor victim, kidnapping a minor victim, and misleading state investigators, officials allege.
According to the superseding indictment, on April 25, 2022, Aaron Mitchell, 27, was employed as a CBP agent.
The alleged minor victim, referred to in the indictment as M.V., was 15 years old when the defendant allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted them.
Mitchell was arrested April 26. The 15-year-old girl from the southern Arizona border city was taken t to Sierra Vista and sexually assaulted her, according to the FBI.
Mitchell lived in the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, area in the 1990s before moving to Sierra Vista for work, the news release said.
Mitchell is also charged with making a misleading statement to investigators regarding his conduct related to the sexual assault and kidnapping.
If convicted of the charges, Mitchell faces up to life in prison. He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
The FBI’s Sierra Vista resident agency investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Carin Duryee for the District of Arizona and Trial Attorney MarLa Duncan of the Civil Rights Division’s Criminal Section are prosecuting the case.