Adolfo Castaneda-Garcia Has Four Previous Removals
Lynchburg, VIRGINIA - A citizen of Mexico, who on four occasions was removed from the United States only to return later without lawful permission, pled guilty this afternoon to a federal immigration charge, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
Adolfo Castaneda-Garcia, 45, a native of Mexico, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lynchburg to one count of illegally reentering the United States without obtaining express consent of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to reapply for admission.
According to evidence presented at today’s guilty plea hearing by Assistant United States Attorney Charlene R. Day, Castaneda-Garcia was first encountered by Immigrations officials at or near Denver, Colorado in February 1996 while serving a state prison sentence for possession of a controlled substance. The defendant was sentenced to four years in prison for this conviction and later removed to Mexico. Over the next decade, Castaneda-Garcia was arrested, incarcerated, removed from the United States and encountered by Border Patrol officers at least four times in Arizona, California and Texas.
On June 17. 2016, officials with the Rockbridge Regional Jail in Lexington, Va., contacted officials with Immigrations and Customs and Enforcement officers and informed them that Castaneda-Garcia was arrested in Buena-Vista on state drug charges.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ICE- Enforcement and Removal Services conducted the investigation of the case. Assistant United States Attorney Charlene R. Day prosecuted the case for the United States.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
