Posted on Sun, Feb. 22, 2009 10:26 AM
Woman deported after drug conviction arrested again

A Mexican woman deported from the U.S. after being convicted of drug trafficking in Missouri has been found again, this time in Kansas.

Norma Arias-Garcia will appear in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., on Monday for a bond hearing. Federal prosecutors in Kansas have asked that she be jailed pending her trial on charges that she illegally re-entered the country after her deportation.

Arias-Garcia could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors reported that Arias-Garcia was convicted in Jackson County in 1996 for first-degree drug trafficking and deported in May 1998.

| Mark Morris, The Star

Posted on Sun, Feb. 22, 2009 10:26 AM
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