Guatemalan Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Illegally Re-Entering the United States After Being Deported

A man who illegally re-entered the United States after being deported was sentenced today to one year in federal prison.

Adan Gomez-Juarez, age 25, from Sioux City, Iowa, received the prison term after an October 24, 2024, guilty plea to one count of illegal re-entry.

At the plea hearing, Gomez-Juarez admitted he had illegally re-entered the United States after he had been removed in 2020.  On August 28, 2024, Gomez-Juarez, a citizen and national of Guatemala, was encountered by ICE officers in Sioux City after he was arrested for OWI by Sioux City police.  

Gomez-Juarez was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand.  Gomez-Juarez was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment.  He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.  There is no parole in the federal system.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin Fletcher and was investigated by the Enforcement and Removal Office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau.

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.

The case file number is 24-CR-04061.

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