LYNDEN, Wash. – A Lynden man is in custody after being accused of raping two teens.

Court documents state that the victims reported the assaults occurred over two weekends in September of 2021.

The suspect allegedly told both victims that he was 16 years old and that he attended a nearby high school.

Investigators later learned that he was a former student at that high school, and that he was actually 19 years old at the time of the assaults.

Police arrested the suspect, Everildo Mendoza-Ailon, on Saturday, February 4th.