Aggravated felon sentenced to 30 months in prison for illegally reentering the United States

SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Honduran national was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison for reentering the country after having been previously deported for committing an aggravated felony.

Timoteo Gonzalez-Leiva, 42, of Las Ceiba Atlantia, Honduras, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter on one count of illegal reentry after being deported as an aggravated felon. He was also ordered deported once his prison term is served. According to evidence presented at the July 28, 2015 guilty plea, Shreveport Police arrested Gonzalez-Levia on October 26, 2014. On October 28, 2014, he was convicted of simple battery and sentenced to jail. On January 7, 2015, at the completion of his jail sentence, the Caddo Parish Sheriff notified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of his pending release. ICE agents found that the defendant had been deported and then unlawfully returned to the United States multiple times. He was arrested in March of 1998 for first degree robbery in Delaware and sentenced to two years in prison. After serving the prison sentence, he was deported as an aggravated felon to Honduras. He later unlawfully reentered the United States again, was arrested and removed in April of 2004, and again in February of 2006.

The U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement-Immigration Enforcement, the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Department and the Shreveport Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert W. Gillespie Jr. prosecuted the case.