News Release
U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
District of Rhode Island
June 19, 2008
Twice deported Mexican national is sentenced for illegal reentry
A federal judge today sentenced Gustavo Granados, a citizen of Mexico, to 46 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Granados, 39, was convicted in 1992 in Rhode Island Family Court of second degree child abuse, and was deported twice. His illegal status was discovered in January after a traffic stop in East Providence.
United States Attorney Robert Clark Corrente announced the sentence, which Senior U.S. District Court Judge Ernest C. Torres imposed in U.S. District Court, Providence. After his term in prison, Granados will again be subject to deportation.
Granados pleaded guilty in March to illegal reentry. At the plea hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra R. Beckner said the government could prove that Granados was deported as an aggravated felon in May 1995. After illegally reentering the country, he was deported again in October 1999, and illegally reentered again near Nogales, Arizona, in July 2005.
Granados was most recently living in an apartment on Mowry Street, Central Falls. In January, East Providence Police made a routine traffic stop of a car that Granados was driving, and subsequently contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement for an immigration check. ICE agents took custody of Granados on January 15.