Guatemalan National Indicted for Illegal Re-entry

PROVIDENCE – A Guatemalan national deported from the United States in 2004 has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Rhode Island on a charge of illegal re-entry, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.

Marco Tulio Gonzales Cahueque aka Santos Israel Ortiz Cahueque, 48, 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 Information Center as a result of his arrest on a driving under the influence charge in Rhode Island in December 2024. ICE encountered him in his car on June 3, 2025, and he was arrested.

Government records indicate that Marco Tulio Gonzales Cahueque was deported from the United States in May 2004.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Julianne Klein and Dulce Donovan.

The matter was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with the Assistance of the U.S. Marshals Service.

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).

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