Source: Office of United States Attorneys
BEAUMONT, Texas –A Guatemalan national has been sentenced to federal prison for illegally reentering the United States, announced Eastern District of Texas Acting U.S. Attorney Abe McGlothin, Jr.
Carlos Rodriguez-Torres, 42, pleaded guilty to reenty of deported alien and was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Marcia A. Crone on February 18, 2025.
According to information presented in court, on April 18, 2024, Rodriguez-Torres was found in Lumberton. Data system checks revealed Rodriguez-Torres is a citizen and national of Guatemala and illegally present in the United States. Further investigation revealed Rodriguez-Torres had been previously deported or removed to Guatemala on March 14, 2012; October 9, 2012; March 12, 2013; and January 8, 2019. Rodriguez-Torres had also been previously convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm by an alien on February 20, 2018, in the Eastern District of Texas.
This case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and the Lumberton Police Department. This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Quinn.
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