LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that two illegal aliens pleaded guilty and one illegal alien was sentenced last week for various offenses.
Mexican national pleads guilty to using fraudulent documents
LAFAYETTE, La. - Noe Bautista-Hernandez, 30, of Mexico, pleaded guilty Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick Hanna to one count of false representation of a Social Security number. The plea will become final when accepted by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote. According to the guilty plea, Abbeville police arrested Bautista-Hernandez on July 18, 2017 on unrelated charges. Police discovered that the name he provided at his arrest belonged to another person. Upon examining the identifying documents submitted to the police, they discovered a Social Security card, a Puerto Rican birth certificate, two Louisiana State identification cards and a Louisiana driver’s license in another name. They were all false and fraudulent. He also possessed a Mexican birth certificate and passport in his own name.
Bautista-Hernandez faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The court set sentencing for December 8, 2017.
Homeland Security Investigations and the Abbeville Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney David J. Ayo is prosecuting the case.
Man from Mexico pleads guilty to illegally returning to the United States
LAFAYETTE, La. - Isais Hernandez-Vasquez, 33, of Mexico, pleaded guilty Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick Hanna to one count of reentry of a removed alien. The plea will become final when accepted by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell. According to the guilty plea, Hernandez-Vasquez was arrested on July 17, 2014 in St. Martin Parish. He pleaded guilty and was convicted on June 2, 2017 of attempted possession of methamphetamine. Agents later encountered him and discovered that he had been previously removed from the United States. He was removed on Aug. 27, 2009 and April 3, 2014 after criminal convictions. He was not authorized to return to the United States.
Hernandez-Vasquez faces up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The court set sentencing for Jan. 12, 2018.
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Dominic Rossetti is prosecuting the case.
Guatemalan citizen sentenced to 5 months for illegally reentering country
LAKE CHARLES, La. - Emir Sosa-Morales, 31, of Cuilco, Guatemala, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to five months in prison on one count of illegal reentry following removal. According to the June 13, 2017 guilty plea, Lafayette Sheriff’s deputies arrested Sosa-Morales on January 4, 2017 for a felony. Law enforcement agents later discovered that the defendant had been removed from the United States on two previous occasions. The most recent was on Sept. 17, 2013 in New Orleans.
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney T. Forrest Phillips is prosecuting the case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
