Sex offenders accused of raping underage girls while staying in hotel through CA homeless voucher program

A California Republican politician is considering plans to "defy nan state" and ditch its bum voucher programme aft a brace of activity offenders allegedly raped an underage girl successful a Motel 6 past week. 

El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells joined "Fox & Friends First" to talk why he will apt rotation backmost nan section edifice voucher programme to location nan homeless, moreover if it intends facing ineligible action by nan state. 

"We tried to push backmost connected it earlier utilizing conditional usage permits, and nan region entrusted nan California State Attorney General, Rob Bonta, to travel successful and springiness america a cease and desist missive saying that we couldn't do that," Wells told Ashley Strohmier Tuesday. 

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"I deliberation we're going to defy nan authorities and extremity nan programme nary matter what, moreover if it intends getting sued, because I deliberation location are immoderate things that are much important than being sued," he continued. 

Police arrested Lawrence "Larry" Cantrell, 34, and Michael Inman, 70, complete nan play for allegedly raping a teen woman past week successful a Motel 6 bedroom. 

Lawrence "Larry" Cantrell, 34, and Michael Inman, 70, are accused of raping a girl, believed to beryllium betwixt 13 and 16, successful Cantrell's Motel 6 chamber past week, wherever he was staying arsenic portion of a voucher programme for nan homeless. Police opportunity location whitethorn beryllium much victims and are asking for thief from nan public. (El Cajon Police Department)

Both men were placed into lodging by People Assisting The Homeless, aliases PATH, a bum services supplier successful San Diego, according to authorities.

Cantrell was reportedly astatine nan Motel 6 for respective days starring up to nan alleged crime, and anterior to that he was removed from different edifice complete an "altercation." He reportedly admitted to officials he raped nan woman and showed authorities a video of nan crime he took connected his phone. 

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Inman, who was arrested astatine a Days Inn successful San Diego, besides reportedly admitted to raping nan girl, and told officials location were different victims successful caller days.

Wells sounded nan siren connected nan voucher programme backmost successful September, calling retired San Diego County connected "Fox & Friends" for bussing bum group to hotels successful his metropolis without his knowledge. 

"I said each on astatine that we're going to person immoderate benignant of situation arsenic a consequence of that," Wells said Tuesday. "Somebody is going to get hurt. Somebody's going to get killed, and what happened this play was beautiful horrible." 

He noted that officials claimed location would beryllium nary registered activity offenders wrong nan hotel voucher program, but nan alleged calamity proved otherwise. 

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He claims nan metropolis of San Diego has politically targeted El Cajon by placing arsenic galore arsenic 50% of voucher recipients successful hotels there, contempt nan truth El Cajon only accounts for 3% of nan county's population. 

"What we really entity to is that they're putting a batch of these people, a predominant number of these people, successful our city," Wells said. "I honestly judge nan logic they're doing that is because we person a very blimpish metropolis council."

"We person a very blimpish city, and we are not good liked by nan very wide region of San Diego Board of Supervisors, and truthful I deliberation that's why they're doing that," he continued. 

The El Cajon City Council will meet Tuesday to ballot connected adjacent steps.