Thread: CO: IA Caught for Re-Entry Goes to Federal Prison

Illegal Alien Caught in Montrose Sentenced to Federal Prison for Unlawful Re-Entry

Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008


DENVER (LAWFUEL) – Salomon Renteria-Valdez, age 61, formerly of Montrose, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Edward W. Nottingham to serve 46 months (nearly 4 years) in federal prison for unlawful reentry of an aggravated felon.

Renteria-Valdez was charged by Criminal Complaint on February 26, 2008. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on March 12, 2008. He pled guilty before Chief Judge Nottingham on May 9, 2008. He was sentenced by the Chief Judge on August 21, 2008.

According to the indictment, as well as the stipulated facts contained in the plea agreement, on January 24, 2008, Salomon Renteria-Valdez, a national of Mexico, was found in Montrose after having been deported on August 30, 1996. Renteria-Valdez had been previously convicted in Superior Court of California, County of Mendocino, of possession of a controlled substance for sale. He was also convicted in Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, of conspiracy to sale/transport a controlled substance and attempted second degree robbery. In addition, Renteria-Valdez had prior convictions of alien smuggling (197, and molestation of children (1995).

“We’ve increased prosecutions on the Western Slope over the past two years, and will keep prosecuting criminal aliens here and in every part of Colorado,â€

[quote]“We’ve increased prosecutions on the Western Slope over the past two years, and will keep prosecuting criminal aliens here and in every part of Colorado,â€

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