HONOLULU - A federal jury yesterday convicted Ruben Carrillo Gonzalez, age 53, for failing to surrender to federal authorities for service of his term of imprisonment. U.S. District Court Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi had ordered Gonzalez to self-surrender on January 5, 2015 at a federal correctional institution in California, but Gonzalez failed to surrender on that date.
Florence T. Nakakuni, United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, said as a result of this conviction for failure to surrender for service of his sentence, Gonzalez is facing a sentence of up to ten years imprisonment which is required to be consecutive, or in addition, to the term of imprisonment for which he failed to surrender. Gonzalez had been sentenced by Judge Kobayashi on Sept. 13, 2012, to 41 months imprisonment for committing wire fraud and had remained out of custody during the time of the appeal of this conviction to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ultimately rejected the appeal and affirmed the conviction. According to information produced during the trial, the United States Marshal’s Service arrested Gonzalez on January 9, 2015 in Arizona where he resided pursuant to an arrest warrant issued after he failed to surrender.
This case was investigated by the Marshal’s Service with the assistance of the United States Pre-Trial Services Office. Assistant United States Attorney Chris A. Thomas prosecuted the case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
