Madison, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Alfredo Juarez Perez, also known as Octavio Zambrano, 47, Monterrey, Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 30 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Juarez Perez was sentenced to an additional year in federal prison, to run consecutively to the 30-month sentence, for violating previously imposed conditions of supervised release.
Juarez Perez illegally entered the United States in approximately 1983. From December 1992 through September 2008, he was convicted of driving under the influence five times in Wisconsin, and he was convicted of second degree sexual assault in Dane County, Wisconsin in 1995 and fourth degree sexual assault in Dane County in 1996. As a result of his sex assault convictions, he was required to register as a sex offender for life.
In 2011, Juarez Perez was convicted in the Western District of Wisconsin of distributing cocaine, and was sentenced to 63 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. The terms of the defendant’s supervised release included a prohibition on reentering the United States illegally, and a requirement that he not commit any further violations of United States law should he reenter the country. The defendant was deported to Mexico in October 2015 after serving his federal prison term.
On March 3, 2018, law enforcement in Waterloo, Wisconsin, performed a random vehicle registration check. The registered owner of the vehicle, Octavio Zambrano, was discovered to be an alias of Juarez Perez. On March 20, 2018, he was arrested for violating his term of supervised release by illegally reentering the United States and failing to register as a sex offender, and was subsequently indicted on the current charge of illegally reentering the United States after deportation. The defendant pleaded guilty to this charge on June 21, 2018.
The charge against Juarez Perez was the result of an investigation conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The prosecution of the case has been handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Pfluger.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
