A Mexican man who had previously been deported following a federal conviction for illegally reentering the United States was sentenced today to 11 months in federal prison.
Ranulfo Juarez-Hernandez, age 39, a citizen of Mexico who had been living in Independence, Iowa, received the prison term after a June 29, 2017, guilty plea to one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien after a felony conviction.
At the guilty plea, Juarez-Hernandez admitted he illegally reentered the United States without permission after having been deported from the United States in May 2014 and September 2015. Prior to his deportation, Juarez-Hernandez was convicted in August 2015 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa on one count of illegally reentering the United States following deportation, a felony offense. Juarez-Hernandez had also been convicted of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in both Washington County, Iowa, in 2006 and in Grundy County, Iowa, in 2016; and domestic abuse assault in Linn County, Iowa, in 2013. Juarez-Hernandez most recently came to the attention of immigration officials in May 2017 following his arrest for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in Buchanan County, Iowa.
Juarez-Hernandez was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand. Juarez-Hernandez was sentenced to 11 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Juarez-Hernandez is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel C. Tvedt and investigated by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations.
Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.
The case file number is 17-CR-2029.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
