Man from El Salvador sentenced to 11 months in prison for reentering the U.S. illegally for 2nd time

ALEXANDRIA, La. – Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a citizen of El Salvador was sentenced last week to 11 months in prison for reentering the United States illegally.

Jose Edmundo Martinez-Ortiz, 24, of San Salvador, El Salvador, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell on one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien. According to the April 17, 2017 guilty plea, Lake Charles police conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle containing illegal aliens on November 15, 2016. Martinez-Ortiz admitted to being in the United States illegally. Upon further investigation, law enforcement agents found that the defendant had been found guilty of armed robbery in Maryland on September 11, 2014 and had been removed from the United States in 2016.

United States Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and the Lake Charles Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert F. Moore prosecuted the case.