Mexican man sentenced to federal prison for illegal re-Entry
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who illegally re-entered the United States from Mexico was sentenced on June 27, 2011, to 6 months in federal prison.
Luis Martinez-Sanchez, age 40, from Mexico, received the prison term after a May 5, 2011, guilty plea to one count of illegal re-entry.
At the guilty plea, Martinez-Sanchez admitted he had been deported from the United States on May 29, 2000. He came into Homeland Security
Investigations’ custody on March 7, 2011, while incarcerated for forgery, falsifying public documents, and no driver’s license.
Martinez-Sanchez was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Martinez-Sanchez was sentenced to 6
months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed. He must also serve a 1 year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Martinez-Sanchez 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 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR11-4044.
