Crawford County Man sentenced For Illegal Re-Entry
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who illegally re-entered the United States from Guatemala was sentenced on August 5, 2010, to six months in federal prison.
Rodolfo Lopez-Martinez, age 28, from Guatemala but living in Crawford County, Iowa, received the prison term after a June 22, 2010, guilty plea to one count of illegally re-entering the United States from Guatemala.
At the guilty plea, Lopez-Martinez admitted he was a citizen of Guatemala and illegally re-entered the United States in June of 2008 after being deported on May 23, 2008.
Lopez-Martinez was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Lopez-Martinez was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed. He must also serve a one-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Lopez-Martinez is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Fletcher and investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 10-CR-04046.
