Working off a Crime Stoppers tip, investigators with the Texas Department of Public Safety were able to find and arrest a Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender and gang member on July 21, said Sylvia Jennings, DPS spokesman.
According to a DPS news release, a reward of up to $3,000 will be paid to the anonymous tipster.
Soloya was arrested without incident in northwest Houston by DPS investigators with the assistance of the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Violent Offender Task Force and the Houston Police Department. Soloya's last known address at the time was Houston.
According to his online wanted bulletin on the DPS website, Soloya was wanted for his failure to comply as a sex offender and a parole violation. Soloya's parole was a result of the original offense of "burglary of a habitation with intent to commit sexual assault," the bulletin said.
Houston police arrested Soloya in 2007 after he burglarized an apartment during the middle of the night with the intent to sexually assault a female resident. He served time in prison and was paroled in March 2015 from Texas Department of Criminal Justice to Harris County, where he was required by law to register as a sex offender for life, according to the bulletin.
In September 2015-six months later-the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles issued a warrant for Soloya's arrest for a parole violation and one month ago, the 182nd District Court in Harris County issued an an additional warrant for his arrest for failure to comply as
a sex offender.
"So far in 2016, DPS and other agencies have arrested 10 (of the) Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives and Sex Offenders," Jennings said. This includes six sex offenders and four gang members.
Jennings said $18,500 in rewards have been paid for tips that resulted in arrests this year. DPS guarantees that all tips are anonymous regardless of how they are submitted, and tipsters receive a tip number instead of using a name.
To be eligible for cash rewards, however, Jennings said anonymous tipsters must provide information to authorities using one of the five following methods:
Call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477).
Text the letters DPS-followed by your tip-to 274637 (CRIMES) from your cellphone.
Submit a web tip through the DPS website by selecting the fugitive you have information about, and then clicking on the link under their picture.
Submit a Facebook tip at www.facebook.com/texas10mostwanted by clicking the "SUBMIT A TIP" link (under the "About" section).
Submit a tip through the DPS Mobile App. The app is available for iPhone users on the Apple App Store and for Android users on Google Play.
To view 10 Most Wanted fugitive and sex offender lists, visit dps.texas.gov/texas10mostwanted/.