INS Agent Faces More Sex Charges : Courts: Nine new accusations of kidnaping and rape involving illegal aliens are filed against the Reseda man.

Nine charges involving the alleged kidnaping and assault of three additional victims were filed Thursday against an Immigration and Naturalization Service agent accused of abducting illegal aliens off streets in the San Fernando Valley and threatening to deport them unless they had sex with him.

The latest charges bring the total to 17 against James Edward Riley of Reseda. Included are allegations that he raped a woman after conducting an unauthorized, one-man “raid” at gunpoint on a Van Nuys bar. As illegal aliens ran out the bar’s back door, Riley stopped a 24-year-old woman, then abducted and raped her, authorities said.

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office charged Riley, 32, with three counts of kidnaping, three counts of rape and one count each of forced oral copulation, attempted forced oral copulation and assault with intent to commit rape. The charges accuse Riley of using his position as a federal agent to commit the crimes, which allegedly occurred in August and November, 1989, and in January of this year.

Riley entered a plea of not guilty to the new charges, and Van Nuys Municipal Judge Leslie Ann Dunn scheduled a preliminary hearing for July 30.

Riley, who has been jailed without bail since his arrest on May 12, was already facing eight felony charges stemming from incidents involving four other women. Those charges include three counts of rape, three counts of kidnaping and one count each of false imprisonment and assault. He has pleaded not guilty to those charges as well.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Andrew J. McMullen said all the victims were young illegal immigrants who lived in the Van Nuys area. In each case, Riley approached the women, identified himself as an INS officer and forced them to go with him. Several of the women were sexually assaulted at his Reseda apartment or in his INS car before he released them, authorities said.

Six of the women were approached by Riley on the street, but the seventh was abducted after Riley apparently went into a bar in Van Nuys alone and began checking citizenship documents of patrons, McMullen said. The name and location of the bar were not released, and McMullen said the exact details of what happened are not clear.

“He was in there checking papers or talking to the bartender,” McMullen said. “The word spread that the INS was there, and people started going out the back door.”

Riley allegedly pulled a gun and followed the people who ran out the back door, stopping a 24-year-old woman who had jumped into the passenger seat of a car.

“At that point she was afraid that if she didn’t get out and go with him she might get hurt,” McMullen said. The woman was then allegedly kidnaped and raped by Riley before she was released.

An INS agent since November, 1987, Riley was assigned to the Employee Sanctions Unit, which primarily audits records of companies to make sure that they are not employing illegal aliens, police said. He was not a street-level agent, and it was not within his job description to stop and question people about their residency status.

Riley took a leave of absence after his arrest but was suspended without pay May 30, INS spokesman Ron Rogers said.

The agent was arrested after a woman told police that she was raped by the agent. Three more victims were discovered through evidence found in Riley’s apartment and as police reviewed reports looking for similar crimes. Authorities declined to say how the victims involved in the latest charges were located.

After the initial charges were filed against the agent, the case was transferred from Van Nuys detectives to a task force of four detectives who are investigating Riley’s background and INS career.

Lt. Don Foster said the investigation is continuing and urged any women who believe they were victimized by the INS officer to come forward.

Police have said any illegal aliens who come forward to report crimes or aid in the investigation will not face deportation.