Exclusive | Illegal immigrant charged with raping VA woman has disturbing criminal history dating back to 2017
The illegal migrant arrested on rape charges in Virginia last week has a lengthy rap sheet including nearly 30 run-ins with cops for sex crimes and assaults — but was repeatedly given slaps on the wrists instead of being booted out of the country, The Post has learned.Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, 31, has been a menace since 2017, racking up 29 encounters with police ranging from small-time drug offenses to a disturbing progression of perverse crimes like indecent exposure, public nudity and masturbation and sexual assault, law enforcement sources said. The Honduran migrant was arrested last week for allegedly raping a woman on a hiking trail just outside DC — just four days after he was released from jail for indecent exposure.In that case, he was released early after serving just half of his 50-day sentence due to “good behavior,” authorities said.In his first known contact with law enforcement in 2017, a 14-year-old reported Navarette Romero fondled her and exposed himself to her nieces, who were 10 and 13 years old at the time — but the family declined to press charges and resisted authorities’ attempts to investigate it, police reports show.
In 2022, he went on a spree of perverse behavior in and around the National Mall in Washington, including telling cops he wanted to die via “suicide by cop,” entering a restricted area of the White House and skinny dipping in the water fountain at the National Museum of American Indian History, sources said.In June of that year, he smacked a woman’s behind in a restaurant — then tried to choke a cop and hit another in the face, records show.
He landed in jail for eight days, then went on yet another rampage involving simple assault, trespassing and smoking marijuana and drinking in public the following month.Records show he served another six months in jail until January 2023 and was rearrested months later in June for allegedly drunkenly urinating on the World War II Memorial in DC.He would go on...