Cops Arrest Child Predator For Alleged Hours-Long Rape Of Minor After He Flees Country

Law enforcement authorities have captured a registered sex offender accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl from Orange County, Calif., and repeatedly raping her over several hours.

Authorities arrested 34-year-old Brian Estuardo Verbena-Martinez of Anaheim last week in Guatemala following a coordinated, multi-jurisdictional effort involving the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of International Affairs, and other local agencies, according to the press release. Prosecutors allege that on Dec. 5, 2025, Verbena-Martinez pulled alongside a 13-year-old girl who was walking on the street and asked if she needed a ride.

Investigators say he grew increasingly aggressive until the girl entered his vehicle. Over the next several hours, authorities allege he sexually assaulted her in multiple locations, including several parking lots and his Anaheim apartment while other children were home, before dropping her off at a friend’s residence in Garden Grove.

Westminster police identified Verbena-Martinez as the suspect and worked with the FBI and federal authorities to track him to Guatemala. Law enforcement agents arrested him there and are now working to return him to Orange County to face prosecution.

Prosecutors charged Verbena-Martinez with one felony count of kidnapping to commit a sex offense, one felony count of forcible rape, one felony count of sexual penetration of a child under 14 by force, one felony count of forcible oral copulation with a minor under 14 and three felony counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14. If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Verbena-Martinez previously registered as a