The Brownwood Police Department issued the following press release Wednesday afternoon:

In January 2020, officers with the Brownwood Police Department received information from a juvenile victim of a sexual encounter she and two other juvenile females had with an adult male.

It was alleged that the three juveniles met with the adult male at a hotel in the 500 block of East Commerce in mid-January of 2020. During this encounter, all subjects consumed alcoholic beverages and slept in the room for the night. At one point, the female victim was sexually assaulted by the adult male.

An investigation was conducted by the Brownwood Police Department Criminal Investigations Division and 21-year-old Carlos Santana Granados of Bangs was identified as the suspect. The investigation continued and on January 25, 2021 a warrant was issued by the 35th District Court for Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child – Forcible Rape.

On January 27, 2021, at approximately 3 a.m. Granados was located at a north Brownwood residence and arrested for the warrant.