Guatemalan man pleads gulty to illegal re-Entry
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who illegally re-entered the United States from Guatemala pled guilty June 30, 2011, in federal court in Sioux City.
Santos Lopez-Marroquin, age 25, from Guatemala, was convicted of one count of illegal re-entry into the United States.
At the plea hearing, Lopez-Marroquin admitted that he was previously deported from the United States in July of 2008, and had re-entered the country illegally in October of 2009.
Sentencing before United States District Court Judge Donald E. O’Brien will be set after a presentence report is prepared. Lopez-Marroquin remains in custody of the United States Marshal pending sentencing. Lopez-Marroquin faces a possible maximum sentence of 2 years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, a $100 special assessment, and 1 year of supervised release following any imprisonment.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Fletcher and was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR11-4088.
