SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Mexican citizen was sentenced last week to 33 months in prison for reentering the United States illegally after being previously removed.
Marco Grijalva-Lopez, 34, of Mexico, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote on one count of illegal reentry of a removed alien. According to the August 9, 2017 guilty plea, Bossier City police arrested the defendant for shoplifting on April 14, 2017. After further investigation, law enforcement agents discovered that Grijalva-Lopez had two prior convictions for assault of a family member in Harris County, Texas. He was removed on May 30, 2015 and banned for life from entering the United States.
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Bossier City Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney James G. Cowles Jr. prosecuted the case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
