Guatemalan National Indicted for Illegally Reentering the United States Six Months After Being Deported

PROVIDENCE – A Guatemalan national deported from the United States in November 2024, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Rhode Island for allegedly illegally reentering the United States without the consent of the Attorney General of the United States, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.

According to court records, Rigoberto Cano Perez, 28, was convicted in Rhode Island state court in December 2023 on charges of simple assault and/or battery and disorderly conduct. He was removed from the United States by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on November 20, 2024.

On May 12, 2025, Immigration Officers learned through an automated biometric fingerprint match of fingerprints entered into the National Crime Information Center that Perez was arrested in Rhode Island on May 11, 2025, for allegedly violating a domestic no contact order and on a domestic disorderly conduct charge. He is currently held at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institute based upon the state charges.

Perez is scheduled to be arraigned on June 2, 2025. A federal indictment is merely an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Taylor A. Dean and Peter I. Roklan.

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

This case is part of Operation Take Back America (https://www.justice.gov/dag/media/1393746/dl?inline) 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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