A 32-year-old Shelby Township man accused of molesting a minor female was bound over to Macomb County Circuit Court on criminal charges related to the alleged incidents.

Joel Quintana-Dominguez was ordered by Judge Stephen Sierawski to face charges of three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for acts with a person under 13, while the defendant is 17 or older, last April, according to county Prosecutor Peter Lucido.

The charge is punishable by up to life in prison.

Quintana-Dominguez is an undocumented resident who officials said at the time had been previously deported and returned here. The Department of Homeland Security has an immigration hold on him, Lucido said in a news release.

He was referenced by Vice President J.D. Vance during his campaign speech last August in Shelby Township when the then-candidate attacked presidential candidate Kamala Harris and the Biden Administration for the rise in illegal immigration due to its border policy. Quintana-Dominguez was arrested only four days before the speech.

“Now we’re dealing with the consequences for it even in places like Shelby Township, which the media would tell you is far away from the Southern border and its problems,” Vance said. “And geographically, of course, it is far away from the Southern border, but it’s not far away from its problems.”

After Quintana-Dominguez was arrested, township Police Chief Robert Shelide said in a news release: “I am also appalled to hear that he had been deported in the past and was able to find his way back into the United States. These types of actions from illegal aliens are harming the country.”

Police said Quintana-Dominguez was preparing to flee the country when he was arrested at a mobile-home park after he had been tipped off that he was under investigation.

He faces a March 6 circuit court arraignment in front of Judge Joseph Toia in his Mount Clemens courtroom.