Carlos Arturo Cahuex-Martinez, a 45-year-old Guatemalan national living in Wagoner, Oklahoma without legal status, has been sentenced to eight months in prison for unlawful reentry after removal. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced the sentencing.
Cahuex-Martinez pleaded guilty on September 16, 2025. According to investigators from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division, he was found in the United States on July 22, 2025, without permission from the Secretary of Homeland Security to reapply for admission after being previously removed on three occasions: July 3, 2018; November 13, 2018; and January 26, 2022.
The case is part of Operation Take Back America. The initiative uses resources from the Department of Justice to address illegal immigration and target criminal organizations.
“The Honorable John C. Coughenour, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, serving by designation, presided over the hearing.” Cahuex-Martinez will remain in custody until he is transferred to a federal prison facility to serve his sentence.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Cornell represented the government during this case.
