FBI Arrests Kickapoo Tribal Member for Sexual Assault of Minor Child

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018

The FBI and Texas Rangers arrested a Kickapoo Tribal member, Leo Salazar, age 31, on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, at the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas Reservation in Eagle Pass, Texas for alleged sexual assault of a minor child.

Since the Kickapoo Tribe reservation is a federal sovereign nation, the FBI has jurisdiction to investigate criminal offenses on the tribal reservation. The FBI had been investigating Salazar for one or more alleged sexual assault of a minor child cases.

Salazar was taken to the Maverick County Tom Bowles Detention Center and was magistrated by a magistrate judge and given a bond of $85,000. It is unknown as of press time if Salazar posted bond or remains detained at the Tom Bowles Detention Center.

A person accused of a criminal offense is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.