Mexican Man Sentenced for Illegally Reentering the United States

A man who entered the United States illegally from Mexico was sentenced on May 31, 2019, to four months in federal prison.

Miguel Angel Prieto-Soto, age 33, from Mexico, received the sentence after an April 12, 2019, guilty plea to one count of unlawful use of identification documents.

At the guilty plea, Prieto-Soto admitted he had purchased a counterfeit permanent resident alien card and counterfeit social security card from an individual in Omaha for $200.  Prieto-Soto admitted he had used his real name on both cards.  He further admitted that he presented the counterfeit documents to Bliek’s Custom Fab in Hull, Iowa, for the purposes of obtaining employment.

Prieto-Soto was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand.  Prieto-Soto was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment.  He must also serve a 1-year term of supervised release.       

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Fletcher and investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and 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 19-CR-04016.

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