Angolan national sentenced to 6 months in prison for resisting deportation orders

ALEXANDRIA, La. – Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that an Angolan national was sentenced to six months in prison for refusing to leave the country twice after being ordered to depart.

Faustino Ngay, 46, of Cazengo, Angola, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell on two counts of failure to depart. The defendant was found guilty after a one-day trial that ended on November 29, 2016. Evidence admitted at the trial revealed that on two occasions U.S. Immigration Enforcement Agents attempted to remove Ngay from the country via the Alexandria International Airport by putting him on a commercial flight. The defendant hampered agents’ ability to remove him by verbally and physically resisting on November 17, 2015. The defendant also hampered attempts to put him on a commercial flight at the Alexandria airport on December 14, 2015. His outbursts prevented him from boarding the flights because of airline and Transportation Security Administration safety policies.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Enforcement and Removal Operations conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Dominic Rossetti prosecuted the case.