A man who illegally re-entered the United States from Mexico was sentenced on September 7, 2011, to five months in federal prison.

Rolando Gonzalez-Perez, age 25, from Mexico, received the prison term after a July 26, 2011, guilty plea to one count of illegal re-entry.

At the guilty plea, Gonzalez-Perez admitted he had been deported from the United States on April 10, 2008. Gonzalez-Perez entered Homeland Security
Investigations’ custody on June 7, 2011, while he was incarcerated in the Woodbury County Jail for failing to have a driver’s license.

Gonzalez-Perez was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Gonzalez-Perez was sentenced to five 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.

Gonzalez-Perez 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 and Extraditon Removal.

Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR11-4083.

 

 

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