Salvadoran Man Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Re-Entering the United States

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Salvadoran Man Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Re-Entering the United States

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Aug. 5, 2016. It is reproduced in full below.

Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Manual Antonio Guerra-Nolasco, 36, of Canton Matelapa, El Salvador pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to unlawfully re-entering the United States after having been removed from the country.

According to court records, on May 30, 2016, Guerra-Nolasco was arrested after a traffic stop in Orrington, Maine when a Penobscot Count Deputy Sherriff learned that the pick-up truck he was driving was not registered and that his California driver’s license had been issued in the name of another person. Immigration records revealed that Guerra-Nolasco had been removed from the United States on Aug. 20, 2007.

Guerra-Nolasco faces up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He will be sentenced after completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Border Patrol.

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

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