Honduran National Pleads Guilty to Illegal Re-Entry

Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that PREBERR RAMOS-PALMA, age 24, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien.

According to the court documents, RAMOS-PALMA reentered the United States after being previously deported on April 25, 2014.  RAMOS-PALMA faces a maximum term of imprisonment of ten years, a maximum fine of $250,000, a maximum term of supervised release of three years, and a mandatory $100 special assessment.  U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon set sentencing on December 7, 2017.

Acting U.S. Attorney Evans praised the work of the United States Department of Homeland Security in investigating this matter.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Spiro G. Latsis is in charge of the prosecution.