On April 2, 2026, at approximately 5:34 P.M., officers with the Faribault Police Department received a call from the Chaska Police Department regarding a juvenile runaway. Call notes advised officers that they were looking for the juvenile runaway, Juvenile Female Victim herein. They received a possible location for Juvenile Female Victim through the social media platform SnapChat. The platform had her location on 3rd Street NW in Faribault, Rice County, Minnesota. Faribault officers responded to the address provided.
Officers made contact with RODRIGO RAUL DELUNA JR [DOB REDACTED], defendant herein, a resident at the address who is well known to law enforcement. Defendant confirmed that Juvenile Female Victim [NAME REDACTED]. Juvenile Female Victim walked down the stairs and officers informed her that she would be going with them. Defendant allowed officers in the residence while Juvenile Female Victim [NAME REDACTED]. While waiting, defendant told officers he did not know Juvenile Female Victim was reported as a juvenile runaway.
Officers walked Juvenile Female Victim out to the squad car for transport back to the police department. Upon being asked, Juvenile Female Victim [NAME REDACTED] in Faribault for a couple days and she met defendant at the Mall of America. While enroute to the police department, Juvenile Female Victim [NAME REDACTED] was going to go home this morning, but defendant said if she did not do things with him, defendant would get mad. Juvenile Female Victim [NAME REDACTED] had choked her with his hand. Upon arrival at the police department, officers led Juvenile Female Victim [NAME REDACTED] interview room and asked additional questions.
When asked how she got to Faribault, Juvenile Female Victim [NAME REDACTED] at the Mall of America with some of her friends a couple days prior when she met defendant for the first time. She reported defendant asked for her phone number, which she gave him. Juvenile Female Victim continued about the mall with her friends when defendant was texting her asking to meet up. Juvenile Female Victim and defendant met up occasionally and then Juvenile Female Victim would go back with her friends. Eventually Juvenile Female Victim’s friends called her to say they were leaving the mall.
Juvenile Female Victim told her friends that she was not going to go home with them and would have her mom pick her up. Once Juvenile Female Victim [NAME REDACTED], defendant told her she did not have to call her mom, and that Juvenile Female Victim could hangout with defendant and his friends. Later, Juvenile Female Victim, defendant and defendant’s friends left the mall and went to Dave and Busters. At one point the group told Juvenile Female Victim they would bring her home as her home was close to their location.
