Illegal Alien Sentenced For Unlawful Reentry

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Pedro Cucul-Gualna, a/k/a Esduardo Cucul-Choc, age 25, of Guatemala, was sentenced to six months in prison for one count of Unlawful Reentry of Removed Alien.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement – Enforcement and Removal Operations.

On December 12, 2024, Cucul-Gualna pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on October 26, 2024, Cucul-Gualna, an alien, was found in the United States after having been previously deported and removed on one prior occasion near El Paso, Texas, on May 23, 2019.

The Honorable John F. Heil, III, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  Cucul-Gualna will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob R. Parker represented the United States.