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A 32-year-old Brewster man who police say is in the country illegally from Guatemala faces felony charges after sexually abusing two girls, ages 10 and 11, police said today.

Sergio Antonio Martinez-Garza is being held today at the Putnam County jail in lieu of $100,000 cash bail or $200,000 bond, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.

However, even if he does post bond, he can’t be released because federal immigration officials put a detainer warrant on him, ordering the jail to hold him pending possible deportation proceedings, police said.

Martinez-Garza, of 550 N. Main St., touched the girls’ private parts at a residence in Brewster, police said.

Martinez-Garza was arraigned Sunday before Village Justice Richard O’Rourke and is due back in court on Sept. 10.

That is the same date that two other village men in the country illegally are due to appear in Village Court to answer statutory rape charges. Police allege that Pedro Sagastume, 21, and Jeremias Perez, 22, had sex with two girls, 13 and 15, in the men’s apartment at 167 Main St. The two men have been held on $50,000 bail since their July 15 arrests.

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