RESIDENT OF CENTRAL AMERICA SENTENCED FOR ILLEGAL RE-ENTRY

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on May 22, 2009, EDWIN MORAN-ACOSTA, age 44, of El Salvador, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment, 1 year supervised release, and a $100 special assessment following his guilty plea to an indictment charging him with illegal re-entry into the United States. The violation took place November 5, 2008, in St. Clair County, Illinois.

The indictment charged that MORAN-ACOSTA had been previously deported on February 19, 2003. He then re-entered the United States illegally and was found in St. Clair County on November 5, 2008. MORAN-ACOSTA pled guilty to the charge on February 5, 2009.

Evidence supporting this conviction was obtained in an investigation conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Nicole E. Gorovsky.