A Mexican man who had previously been deported following federal convictions for unlawful use of identification documents and misuse of a Social Security number was sentenced Oct. 25, 2017, to 15 months in federal prison.
Adan Vazquez-Santos, age 34, a citizen of Mexico who had been living in Hamilton County, Iowa, received the prison term after an Aug. 3, 2017, guilty plea to one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien after a felony conviction.
At the guilty plea, Vazquez-Santos admitted he illegally reentered the United States without permission after having been deported from the United States in February 2015. Prior to his deportation, Vazquez-Santos was convicted in January 2015 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa on one count of unlawful use of identification documents and one count of misuse of a Social Security number, both felony offenses. Vazquez-Santos had also been convicted of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in both Hamilton County, Iowa, in 2009, and in Webster County, Iowa, in 2012. Vazquez-Santos most recently came to the attention of immigration officials in April 2017 following his arrest in Hamilton County, Iowa, for willful injury and domestic abuse assault.
Vazquez-Santos was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge Linda R. Reade. Vazquez-Santos was sentenced to 15 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. This sentence is to be served consecutively to a 14-month sentence imposed in June 2017 for violating the terms of his supervised release on the 2015 federal convictions for unlawful use of identification documents and misuse of a Social Security number.
Vazquez-Santos 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-3029.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
