Dallas, TX - Federal Jury Convicts Felon Who Escaped From Federal Custody and Shot Up Grand Prairie Apartment Complex

Following a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay, a federal jury has convicted Alvin Christopher Penn, 28, for escaping from federal custody in Hutchins, Texas and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox... More...   $0 (07-05-2018 - TX)

Providence, RI - Colombian National Sentenced to 10 Years For Trafficking 5 Kilos of Heroin

Alberto Mario Perez-Gutierrez a/k/a: Alexander Gomez and Luis Mercado, 46, of Brooklyn, NY, a Colombian national, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for trafficking more than 5 kilograms of heroin into Rhode Island from New York and for illegal reentry after removal from the United S... More...   $0 (06-27-2018 - RI)

Albuquerque, NM - Registered Nurse Formerly Employed by Hospice Care Provider Sentenced to Three Years for Prescription Opioid Conviction

A registered nurse, formerly employed by an Albuquerque-area hospice care provider, was sentenced on June 21, 2018 in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., for her conviction on a prescription opioid conspiracy charge. Desiree Ulibarri, 32, of Albuquerqu... More...   $0 (06-25-2018 - NM)

Providence, RI - Colombian National Sentenced to 10 Years For Trafficking 5 Kilos of Heroin

Alberto Mario Perez-Gutierrez a/k/a: Alexander Gomez and Luis Mercado, 46, of Brooklyn, NY, a Colombian national, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for trafficking more than 5 kilograms of heroin into Rhode Island from New York and for illegal reentry after removal from the United S... More...   $0 (06-21-2018 - RI)

Mario Sanchez-Arvizu pleaded guilty to illegal reentry and was sentenced to 42 months in prison. He appeals, arguing for the first time that the district court erred by applying a 16-level enhancement for his prior conviction for indecency with a child. Concluding that the district court committed reversible plain error, we VACATE his sentence and REMAND for resentencing.
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Sanchez-Arvizu ... More...   $0 (06-20-2018 - TX)

When he illegally reentered the United States after completing a prison term in
this country and then being deported to Mexico, Martin Saavedra–Villasenor violated a
condition of his supervised release: that he not commit any more crimes. And Mr.
Saavedra1 did not deny that he had committed a federal crime by returning to the United
 After examining the briefs and appellate... More...   $0 (06-20-2018 - NM)

Candido Hernandez-Avila pleaded guilty to illegal reentry under 8 U.S.C. § 1326. The presentence report (PSR) recommended a sixteen-level enhancement based on Hernandez-Avila’s prior conviction for sexual assault under Texas Penal Code § 22.011(a)(2), which the PSR determined to be a “crime of violence” within the meaning of § 2L1.2(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the 2015 Sentencing Guidelines. Hernandez-Avila o... More...   $0 (06-15-2018 - TX)

After Toliver's conviction for battery of a law enforcement officer, he was ultimately placed on post-incarceration supervision, i.e., parole, with the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC). Toliver signed an agreement that set out the specific conditions of his parole. One of these "Conditions of Release for Post-incarceration Supervision" required his subjection to suspicionless residential se... More...   $0 (05-27-2018 - KS)

Philadelphia, PA - Jamaican citizen sentenced to 26 months in prison for re-entering U.S. after being deported three times

Vivian George Stewart, 49, who has used five aliases in his attempts to enter or remain in the United States, was sentenced May 16 to 26 months in prison for re-entering the country illegally.

Stewart had previously been convicted in 2006 of participating in ... More...   $0 (05-18-2018 - PA)

Providence, RI - Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Fentanyl Laced Heroin, Illegal Reentry

A Dominican national who had previously been convicted in federal court in Boston in 1998 for trafficking cocaine, sentenced to 72 months in federal prison and ordered deported, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence on May 11, 2018 to reentering the county illegally and conspir... More...   $0 (05-12-2018 - RI)

Albuquerque, NM - Espanola Woman Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Trafficking Charges

Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico

Goldyne Duran, 27, of Espanola, N.M., pled guilty on May 7, 2018 in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to heroin and methamphetamine trafficking charges under a plea agreement wi... More...   $0 (05-07-2018 - NM)

Lopez-Pastrana was charged in a four-count indictment
with two drug crimes and two weapons crimes. He entered into a
plea agreement in which he agreed to plead guilty to Count III,
possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and Count IV,
possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime,
in exchange for dismissal of the remaining two counts. The ple... More...   $0 (05-05-2018 - MA)

Baton Rouge, LA - Illegal Alien Deported on Seven Prior Occasions Pleads Guilty and Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison

JOSE PEREZ-BARRIOS, age 46, plead guilty and was sentenced on a single count indictment charging him with illegal reentry into the United States by a removed alien.

The indictment charges, and the defendant admitted, that he is a citizen of Mexico, was knowingly pr... More...   $0 (04-13-2018 - LA)

Cedar Rapids, IA - Mexican Man Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Returning to the United States Following Two Prior Deportations

A Mexican man who illegally returned to the United States after two prior deportations was sentenced to more than three months in federal prison.

Noel Ramirez-Bonifacio, age 31, a citizen of Mexico illegally present in the United States and residing in ... More...   $0 (03-27-2018 - IA)

Abraham Gonzalez-Alarcon filed a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241
alleging specific facts which, if proven, would demonstrate that he is a United States
citizen. He seeks release from custody from Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(“ICE”) following ICE’s reinstatement of a prior order of removal on that basis.
Dismissing Gonzalez-Alarcon’s petition, the district court concl... More...   $0 (03-20-2018 - NM)

Rafael Rios Marroquin pleaded guilty to illegal reentry. He was
sentenced within the 21 to 27 months Guidelines range to 25 months in prison.
That range was based on a criminal history category of V, which applies to the
11 criminal history points assigned to Marroquin. Two of those points were for
a North Carolina conviction for a drug offense that occurred in 2005. Another
tw... More...   $0 (03-05-2018 - TX)

Cedar Rapids, IA - Mexican Man Sentenced to Four Months in Prison for Illegally Returning to the United States Following Deportation

A Mexican man who illegally returned to the United States was sentenced February 22, 2018, to four months in federal prison.

Amador Artiniega-Reyes, age 38, a citizen of Mexico illegally present in the United States and residing in Cedar Rapids, Iow... More...   $0 (02-23-2018 - IA)

New Orleans, LA - Mexican National Sentenced to 37 Months for Immigration Offense

LUIS CHAVEZ-LOPEZ, age 31, a native of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.

United States District Court Judge Susie Morgan sentenced CHAVEZ-LOPEZ to 37 months imprisonment followed by two years of supervised r... More...   $0 (02-13-2018 - LA)

Cedar Rapids, IA - Honduran Man Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Returning to the United States Following Two Deportations

A Honduran man who had previously been deported following a federal conviction for illegal reentry was sentenced on February 12, 2018 to one year in federal prison.

Geovany Rodriguez-Carrasco, age 38, a citizen of Honduras who had been living in Cedar Rapi... More...   $0 (02-12-2018 - IA)

Juan Vega, Jr. was transferred from federal prison to a Seattle non-profit residential reentry center to complete the remainder of his prison sentence. There, he alleged that federal and private employees conspired to remove him from the halfway house known as Pioneer House, ostensibly based on his race and for asserting his First Amendment rights, by filing a false incident report. After his retu... More...   $0 (02-09-2018 - WA)

Boston, MA - Guatemalan National Pleads Guilty to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender and Illegal Reentry After Deportation

A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty on January 31, 2018 in federal court in Boston to failing to register as a sex offender and to illegally reentering the United States after being deported.

Jary Vincente Valenzuela, 27, a Guatemalan national formerly r... More...   $0 (02-01-2018 - MA)

In February 2015 Gregory Swiger and Catherine Richard were walking to a liquor store when they came upon Christopher Harris. Swiger and Harris got into an argument, and Swiger stated that he was going to "whip [Harris'] butt." Swiger did not follow through on the threat, however, because he did not want to get in any trouble. Swiger testified that as he started to walk away, Harris pulled out a kn... More...   $0 (01-19-2018 - KS)

This appeal requires us to decide whether Georgia aggravated assault as defined by O.C.G.A § 16-5-21(a)(2) is a crime of violence under the operative version of § 2L1.2 of the Sentencing Guidelines. Defendant Paulino Morales-Alonso was convicted in 2016 of illegally reentering the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. §§ 1326(a) and (b)(2), after having been deported following a conviction for a... More...   $0 (01-05-2018 - GA)

Stephanie Watkins, a native and citizen of Jamaica—and until her deportation in 2003, a lawful permanent resident of the United States—appeals her conviction for reentering the country illegally following deportation. On appeal, Watkins argues that her indictment should have been dismissed because her deportation order was invalid due to a change in what crimes are considered “crimes involving mor... More...   $0 (01-05-2018 - FL)

Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore on December 22, 2017 sentenced Michael O. Johnson (28, Tampa) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on August 10, 2017.

According to court documents, Johnson sold undercover agents six firearms over a period of several months, including a Russian model SKS 7.62x39-caliber rifle wit... More...   $0 (12-27-2017 - FL)