Published: September 24, 2009 12:17 pm

Illegal alien sentenced for illegal re-entry into U.S.

Deported in 1998 after kidnapping conviction in Cobb County

Submitted by the U.S. attorney's office

ATLANTA — ARMANDO GALARDO-NAVARRETE, 28, of Marietta, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge J. Owen Forrester on a charge of illegal re-entry by a removed alien.

Acting United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said of the case, “The apprehension and subsequent prosecution of this defendant is but one example of the successful partnership between the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Violent Criminal Alien Section (VCAS) unit of the ICE Detention and Removal Operation’s Atlanta Field Office, which reviews criminal and fugitive alien cases for federal prosecution. Since we started participating in this initiative in February 2009, we have charged approximately 55 defendants in cases presented by the VCAS.â€