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A Pierceton man arrested in Edinburg, Texas, in September, after a routine warrant check during a traffic stop revealed several outstanding warrants in Kosciusko County, has been extradited and booked into the Kosciusko County Jail.
Maximo Pete Ybarra, 23, was booked into the Kosciusko County Jail at 10:38 p.m. Friday on one count of child molesting and two counts of failure to appear. He is being held on $32,000 bond.
According to a police report filed July 21 at the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department, three juvenile girls reported being raped at a residence on Channel Road in Warsaw.
The three girls, ages 13, 16 and 17, said they were sleeping at approximately 1 a.m. July 21 when Ybarra allegedly reached into an open window and pulled them outside and raped them in a neighbor's yard.
After raping the girls, Ybarra reportedly kissed each of them, stood up, laughed and left the scene after telling the oldest girl he would kill her if she told anyone.
The girls were taken to Kosciusko Community Hospital later that day and examined.
