Illegal immigrant (inmate)Sex offender found working at home of West Baton Rouge sheriff

PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) - An undocumented immigrant, serving time for a sex crime against a 13-year-old girl, has been discovered working unsupervised at the home of West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Mike Cazes. A van owned by West Baton Rouge Parish was also found at the sheriff’s home. The inmate, Elmer Castillo, 32, was accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl inside her Baton Rouge home, according to the arrest warrant. The victim told police Castillo pulled her underwear down and penetrated her, the warrant says.
When Castillo was confronted about the allegations in 2014, he fled and was not arrested until three years later. An East Baton Rouge Parish jury convicted him of sexual battery in 2018. Sheriff Cazes told WAFB Lead Investigative Reporter Kiran Chawla by phone Monday he hired Castillo to do work at his home in Port Allen and was personally paying him for the work. The sheriff says he was using the parish van to “haul some furniture." DOC spokesman, Ken Pastorick, says the inmate, Castillo, was assigned to the West Baton Rouge Work Release Program to do work at the facility itself, but was not supposed to be sent out into the community. DOC says it had no idea Castillo was working at the sheriff’s home until the 9News Investigators alerted them. The agency’s spokesperson says it would never give approval for that to take place. LINK