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Mexican Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Illegal Re-Entry

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 2, 2011

Contact: Peter Deegan

A man who illegally re-entered the United States from Mexico was sentenced on October 31, 2011, to 2 months’ time served.

Isidro Martinez-Hernandez, age 35, from Mexico, received the prison term after a September 16, 2011, guilty plea to one count of illegal re-entry.

At the guilty plea, Martinez-Hernandez admitted he had been deported from the United States on April 5, 2011. Martinez-Hernandez entered Homeland Security
Investigations’ custody on July 25, 2011, when he was encountered at the Plymouth County, Iowa, jail after his arrest for driving while license revoked.

Martinez-Hernandez was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Martinez-Hernandez was sentenced to 2 months’ time served. He must also serve a one year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Fletcher and investigated by Homeland Security Investigations and Extraditon Removal.

Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR11-4110.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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