BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for an immigration crime.
Manolo Sosa-Nieves, 45, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to one year and one day in prison and three years of supervised release. Sosa-Nieves will face deportation proceedings upon completion of his sentence. In August 2017, Sosa-Nieves pleaded guilty to one count of illegal reentry after deportation.
On April 14, 2017, Sosa-Nieves was arrested in Lawrence on unrelated state charges and determined to be unlawfully present in the United States; he had previously been deported on Aug. 21, 2002.
United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling and Michael Shea, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Soivilien of Lelling's Major Crimes Unit prosecuted the case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
