Illegal Alien Sentenced for Reentry of Deported Alien

12/12/2011

A Tuzantla, Michoacan, Mexico, man has pleaded guilty to a charge of reentry of deported alien. Twenty-nine-year-old Rafael Estrada-Santana to one year and six months in federal prison. Estrada-Santana was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victim`s Fund.

On Sept. 18, 2011, Estrada-Santana was a passenger in a vehicle stopped for a traffic violation in New Town, N.D. U.S. Border Patrol officials discovered that Estrada-Santana was a citizen of Mexico and in the United States illegally.

Estrada-Santana had been convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine in Utah state court in Dec. 2008, and was deported from the United States on Feb. 5, 2009, after serving a jail sentence on the Utah conviction.

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