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An illegal immigrant has been arrested and accused of tying up a woman, pistol-whipping her and threatening to cut off her fingers if she did not show him where her valuables were in a terrifying home robbery in Texas.
Manuel Hernandez-Hernandez, 28, is one of four men police in Texas believe took part in the Sept. 21 home invasion. He illegally entered the country near El Paso in March without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by an immigration officer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told DailyMail.com.
The Venezuelan citizen been charged with aggravated robbery and is currently in jail with an immigration hold for being in country illegally, according to Dallas County jail records.
The nightmare scenario unfolded as the victim, an unnamed woman, arrived at her Dallas home around 10 pm in the ritzy Briarwood neighborhood in the heart of the city.
As she pulled into her garage, she was approached by four gun-totting thugs who ordered her to the ground at gunpoint, reported to the local Fox station.
The woman was pistol-whipped multiple times before she was taken inside her home to lead the intruders to her valuables and tied up with her own clothing.
Using Google Translate, the Spanish-speaking robbers told the woman they would chop off her fingers if she didn't show them her safe, the arrest affidavit alleges.
After getting $75,000, a Gucci purse, the victim's phone and several coins from a wooden box, the suspects left, but not before instructing the woman to stay in the bathroom for 10 minutes before coming out.
Hernandez-Hernandez pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and was sentenced to 3 days confinement on May 21, just three months after entering the US illegally, ICE stated.