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Illegal alien sentenced to 15 months in fed prison
By Danny Malkovich - Staff writer
Published: Thursday, June 8, 2006 8:25 AM CDT

An illegal immigrant who on numerous occasions failed to heed previous warnings about entry into the United States was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois in Benton to 15 months in federal prison.

Maximino Perez-Angeles, 21, of Hidalgo, Mexico, had previously pleaded guilty to illegal reentry into the U.S. after deportation and illegal possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.

In addition to the prison time, Perez-Angeles will also serve two years supervised released, fined $150 and is also subject to deportation.


On Nov. 25, 2005, an Illinois State Police trooper pulled over Perez-Angeles' car for speeding on Interstate 57 near Marion. Perez-Angeles produced a Mexican Consular ID card for identification and spoke only limited English. As a result, a Spanish-speaking officer was called to the scene. The man admitted to this officer to being in the country illegally and consented to a search of his vehicle.

Officers found a loaded handgun in the car. Perez-Angeles told officers that he had purchased the gun for protection from a person in Columbia, S.C. on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005.

On Dec. 2, 2005, Perez-Angeles was transported to the Immigration & Customs Enforcement office in St. Louis.


He was fingerprinted and those prints were compared with the prints on file for a person who used the same name as the defendant who had previously been ordered removedfrom the U.S. on Oct. 20, 2005, after entering the U. S. illegally. That order prohibited Perez-Angeles from entering the country for five years. The fingerprints matched.

On Dec. 8, 2005, ICE officials verified that the same Defendant had been ordered removed from the U.S. on at least 10 other occasions and that he has never applied to the Attorney General for permission to re-enter..

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael C. Carr handled the prosecution.