Previously Deported Alien Sentenced For Illegal Re-Entry

SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Marcos Osorio Villalba, age 38, of Mexico, was sentenced on April 12, 2017, by United States District Judge Matthew W. Brann, to time served of nine months for illegal re-entry into the United States. Osorio Villalba now faces deportation.

According to United States Attorney Bruce D. Brandler, Osorio Villalba was charged with unlawfully returning to the United States after having been deported to Mexico in 2014. Osorio Villalba was removed from the country after a conviction in federal court in Ohio for his involvement in a heroin conspiracy.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). Assistant United States Attorney Sean A. Camoni prosecuted the case.

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