Edgardo Amador-Rodriguez, a 29-year-old Honduran national, has pled guilty to charges related to the re-entry of a removed alien. The plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson on May 13, 2025. Amador-Rodriguez's sentencing is scheduled for June 17, 2025, and will be presided over by U.S. District Judge Brandon S. Long.
Court documents reveal that Amador-Rodriguez had previously been deported from the United States on June 8, 2018. He was arrested again on December 22, 2024, and booked into the Orleans Justice Center for various state charges. Subsequently, on March 5, 2023, the Pacific Enforcement Response Center issued a detainer after his arrest in Jefferson Parish for municipal and traffic violations. He was taken into custody by Enforcement and Removal Operations New Orleans on March 7, 2025.
Amador-Rodriguez faces a potential sentence of up to two years in prison, a fine reaching $250,000, one year of supervised release, and a mandatory special assessment fee of $100.
This case falls under Operation Take Back America—an initiative aimed at addressing illegal immigration and combating cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). The operation integrates resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN).
Acting U.S. Attorney Simpson commended the efforts of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency along with both the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office for their roles in this investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Carter K.D. Guice Jr., from the General Crimes Unit, is leading the prosecution.
