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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
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WORCESTER MAN SENTENCED FOR ILLEGAL REENTRY
BOSTON, MA - A Worcester man was sentenced late yesterday in federal court for illegally re-entering the United States after he had been deported for committing a drug trafficking offense.
Acting United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New England, announced today that CHRISTOVAL REECE, age 33, of Worcester, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV to 60 months imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. REECE pled guilty to illegal re-entry of a deported alien on February 3, 2009.
At the plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the case proceeded to trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that in August 2007, REECE was arrested in Worcester, Massachusetts and charged with drug offenses. A fingerprint comparison revealed that REECE, a native and citizen of Jamaica, had been deported in 1996 after being convicted of a drug trafficking offense in New York. REECE returned to the United States, unlawfully, in 1998 and was deported again in 1999. Sometime thereafter, REECE re-entered the United States for a third time which led to his eventual arrest and prosecution in this case. REECE had not been granted permission to return to the United States following his 1996 deportation.
The case was investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Karin M. Bell of Loucks’ Worcester Branch Office.
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