A man who illegally re-entered the United States from Guatemala was sentenced on November 1, 2011, to 3 months’ in federal prison.

Juan Perez-Gregario a/k/a Jose Gomez-Mendez, age 28, from Guatemala, received the prison term after a September 22, 2011, guilty plea to one count of illegal re-entry.

At the guilty plea, Perez-Gregario admitted he had been deported from the United States on November 14, 2005. Perez-Gregario was encountered by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on July 30, 2011, after his arrest in Woodbury County, Iowa for driving without a license.

Perez-Gregario was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Donald E. O’Brien. Perez-Gregario was sentenced to 3 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a one year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

Perez-Gregario 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 HSI and the Enforcement and Removal Office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau.

Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR11-4115.

 

 

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