Man Sentenced to Time Served for Illegally Re-Entering the United States from Mexico

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Nov. 13, 2015. It is reproduced in full below.

A man who illegally re-entered the country was sentenced on November 9, 2015, to time served.

Isaias Zavala-Aguilar, age 27, from Mexico, received the prison term after an Aug. 24, 2015, guilty plea to one count of illegal re-entry of a removed alien.

At the guilty plea, Zavala-Aguilar admitted he illegally re-entered the United States after being deported on April 26, 2008. Zavala-Aguilar came to the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on July 16, 2015, after his arrest for soliciting prostitution in Sioux City.

Zavala-Aguilar was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Zavala-Aguilar was sentenced to time served. He must serve a 1-year term of supervised release.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Fletcher and investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Enforcement and Removal Office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau.

Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 15-CR-4049.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys