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ALIEN SENTENCED TO NINE MONTHS AFTER ILLEGAL RE-ENTRY
April 4, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ABELARDO MORTERA CRUZ, age 58, a resident of Mexico, was sentenced earlier this week by U. S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to nine (9) months confinement and one year of supervised release, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten. CRUZ will be deported to Mexico after serving his sentence.
The defendant previously pled guilty before U. S. District Judge Mary Vial Lemmon to one count of illegal reentry of deported alien and one count of impersonating a U. S. citizen.
According to court documents, on November 24, 2007, ABELARDO MORTERA CRUZ, an alien who had previously been removed and deported twice from the United States, was knowingly and unlawfully found in Orleans Parish within the Eastern District of Louisiana, without have applied to the Attorney General of the United States or his designated successor, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security for re-admission to the United States.
The case was investigated by the U. S. Border Patrol. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U. S. Attorney W. Scott Laragy.
