A 25-year-old man from Mexico who was convicted of attempted sexual assault of a child in Omaha has been arrested by ICE. Separately, he faced a sex-offender registration violation case earlier this year. Victor Carmona-Hernandez was being held at the Sarpy County Jail as of Thursday afternoon.
According to WOWT, an Omaha police affidavit was from the 2022 case involving Carmona-Hernandez. He ultimately pleaded no contest to two counts of attempted sexual assault of a child and was convicted in 2023, receiving a sentence of four to eight years with 241 days of credit for time served. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security had publicized the arrest as part of a broader announcement about enforcement actions across the country, including the one in Omaha.
Per an Omaha police affidavit cited by the station, Carmona-Hernandez allegedly sexually assaulted a child between 12 and 16 years old and allegedly lied about his age during the encounter, claiming he was 18 when he was reportedly 20 at the time. Those details come from the affidavit's allegations rather than a court finding on the age dispute itself.
A Second Case Over the Summer
The station's report notes that authorities discovered Carmona-Hernandez had violated his sex-offender registry listing on Aug. 19, 2026. That violation led to a second criminal case, and on Oct. 26, he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 100 days, with 69 days of credit for time served already applied.
The registry violation surfaced the same month DHS and ICE were touting a series of enforcement actions tied to sex offenses nationwide. In a separate release, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said its Homeland Security Investigations office in Omaha arrested five suspected child predators, including a Mexican national, in an operation that same month. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security separately highlighted the case of a different Mexican national convicted of sexual assault of a child in Omaha as part of its own list of arrests.
DHS Description Conflicts With Court Records
A DHS announcement published this week described Carmona-Hernandez as having been convicted of first-degree sexual assault in Douglas County. But according to Nebraska court records cited by WOWT, that description does not match the actual conviction — attempted sexual assault of a child, not first-degree sexual assault. A separate DHS release listing arrests of murderers and people convicted of sex offenses named Jorge Arturo Sanchez-Perez as its Omaha case.
The Omaha case lands amid a stretch of heightened immigration enforcement activity tied to sex-offense cases in Nebraska. DHS has said ICE arrested nearly 51,000 people nationwide in August 2026 alone, a figure the agency described as surpassing July's total and setting a record for a single month. Separately, the Omaha World-Herald has reported that federal cases increasingly show Nebraska traffic stops intersecting with immigration enforcement, though that pattern is described independently of the Carmona-Hernandez case.
Not an Isolated Registry Case Locally
Registry violations among convicted sex offenders have drawn scrutiny in the Omaha area beyond this case. WOWT has separately reported that a registered sex offender in Omaha was arrested and charged with a ninth registry violation, an unrelated case illustrating how registry compliance has been an ongoing local enforcement issue. KETV has also reported on a separate Omaha case in which a man convicted of attempting to sexually assault a teenage girl was sentenced to prison and ordered to register as a sex offender.
As of Thursday afternoon, Carmona-Hernandez remained in custody at the Sarpy County Jail. No additional details about his immigration proceedings were included in the available reporting.
