Salvadoran National Sentenced On Reentry Of Removed Aliens

SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jose Carlos Vides-Torres, age 46, a native of El Salvador, was sentenced on February 7, 2025, to time-served, by United States District Court Chief Judge Matthew W. Brann for one count of reentry of removed aliens.

According to Acting United States Attorney John C. Gurganus, Vides-Torres was discovered on September 10, 2022, in Bradford County, having been arrested by the Pennsylvania State Police for driving under the influence of alcohol. Vides-Torres was previously removed from the United States in 2008, and twice in 2011, and had not sought or obtained permission to reenter the United States.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).  Assistant U.S. Attorney Luisa Honora Berti prosecuted the case.

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