Mexican Citizen Sentenced To 21 Months In Prison For Illegal Re-Entry

Mexican Citizen Sentenced To 21 Months In Prison For Illegal Re-Entry

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Dec. 1, 2015. It is reproduced in full below.

HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Miguel Salazar-Gomez, age 33, a Mexican citizen, was sentenced to 21 months in prison by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg for illegally re-entering the United States.

According to United States Attorney Peter Smith, Salazar-Gomez pleaded guilty in September 2015. At that time, he admitted to illegally re-entering the United States after having previously been deported in 2004, 2005 and 2014. Salazar was arrested in March of this year in Adams County and taken into the custody of Homeland Security Investigations.

The conviction is a result of an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations and Assistant U.S. Attorney Chelsea Schinnour was assigned to prosecute the case.

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

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