Leah B. Foley United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts | Department of Justice
A Dominican national, Carlos Alexander Martinez-Jimenez, pleaded guilty in federal court in Worcester to illegally reentering the United States after being deported. The plea was entered while Martinez-Jimenez is serving a state prison sentence at Souza-Baronowski Correction Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
Martinez-Jimenez, 48, admitted to one count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien. U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman set sentencing for February 9, 2026. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in December 2025.
According to court records, Martinez-Jimenez was previously convicted in February 2017 of furnishing a false name or Social Security number and identity fraud in Fall River District Court. He received a sentence of 134 days in state prison for those offenses and was removed from the United States in April 2017 after completing his sentence.
He later returned to the United States and on January 31, 2024, was convicted of trafficking between 18 and less than 36 grams of heroin, morphine, opium, or fentanyl in Essex Superior Court. For that conviction he is currently serving a three-and-a-half to five-year state prison term.
The charge of unlawful reentry carries a maximum penalty of up to ten years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine up to $250,000. After any imposed sentence is served, Martinez-Jimenez faces deportation again. Sentencing will be determined by the federal judge according to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and relevant statutes.
United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Patricia H. Hyde, Field Office Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Boston announced the plea. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Meghan C. Cleary and Zachary Stendig are prosecuting the case.
