Dominican National Indicted for Illegal Reentry

PROVIDENCE – A Dominican national deported in 2021 after being convicted in federal court on a heroin trafficking charge and serving a 60-month prison sentence has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Rhode Island on a charge of illegal reentry, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.

Wandy Alcibiades Diaz-Diaz, 45, most recently came to the attention of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through an automated biometric fingerprint match of fingerprints entered into the National Crime Enforcement Center in January 2025, following his arrest on multiple state drug charges. Subsequently, Diaz-Diaz was convicted in Rhode Island Superior Court on multiple drug charges and is currently at the ACI serving a term of 66 months of incarceration.

The current case in federal court is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S Attorney Ronald R. Gendron.

The matter was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A federal indictment is merely an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

This case is part of Operation Take Back America a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN).