ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a citizen of Mexico was sentenced last week to 14 months in prison for illegally reentering the United States after having been previously removed twice.
United States District Judge Dee D. Drell sentenced Bertolodo Labra-Martinez, 33, of Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, Thursday to one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien. According to the Jan. 26, 2017 guilty plea, the defendant was found in the United States on Nov. 3, 2016, while incarcerated at the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center. Records show that Labra-Martinez was previously removed from the United States in January of 2008 and March of 2015.
United States Customs and Border Protection conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel J. McCoy is prosecuting the case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
