A man who illegally re-entered the United States from Mexico was sentenced on September 8, 2011, to four months in federal prison.

Juan Omar Hernandez-Diaz, age 22, from Mexico, received the prison term after a August 5, 2011, guilty plea to one count of illegal re-entry.

At the guilty plea, Hernandez-Diaz admitted he had been deported from the United States on May 16, 2005. Hernandez-Diaz entered Homeland Security
Investigations’ custody on May 24, 2011, while incarcerated in Sioux County, Iowa, after his arrest for operating a motor vehicle under the influence.

Hernandez-Diaz was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Hernandez-Diaz was sentenced to four 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.

Hernandez-Diaz 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 CR11-4084.

 

 

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