Source: Office of United States Attorneys
LAS VEGAS – A Mexican national was sentenced today by United States District Judge Richard F. Boulware II to 72 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally reentering the United States after being twice removed from the country. The defendant had prior violent convictions, including multiple robberies with a butcher knife and shooting three people.
According to court documents and statements made during court proceedings, on March 16, 2021, Otoniel Lugo-Campos was found in the United States after he was previously deported on December 19, 2000, and October 21, 2014.
In 2000, Lugo-Campos was deported for the first time following a felony drug conviction and multiple probation violations. He returned to the United States and, in 2008, robbed five convenience stores around Las Vegas using a large butcher knife. In two of the robberies, the store clerks working the cash registers were cut by him. After serving his prison sentence, Lugo-Campos was deported for a second time in 2014.
Lugo-Campos again unlawfully returned to the United States. On March 8, 2021, Lugo-Campos entered his former girlfriend’s apartment and shot her, her new boyfriend, and a neighbor when one of the bullets went through the wall of the apartment. Two months prior to shooting his former girlfriend, he beat her with a pipe requiring staples to her head to close the wound. While he was in state custody, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents located him and determined he was not lawfully in the country.
Lugo-Campos pleaded guilty to one-count of Deported Alien Found in the United States.
Acting United States Attorney Sigal Chattah for the District of Nevada and Salt Lake City Field Office Director Jason Knight made the announcement.
The ICE Salt Lake City, Las Vegas Sub-Office investigated the case; and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada prosecuted the case.
Members of the public can report crimes and suspicious activity by dialing 866-DHS-2-ICE (866-347-2423) or completing the online tip form.
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