ALIEN PLEADS GUILTY TO ILLEGAL RE-ENTRY
GILBERTO RAMOS-MARRUFO, age 32, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty yesterday in federal court today before U. S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to a one-count indictment charging him with illegal re-entry by a removed alien, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to the factual basis, on October 26, 2010, RAMOS, an alien who had previously been removed from the United States, was knowingly and unlawfully found in the United States in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana without the Attorney General or the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security having expressly consented to his re-application for admission into the United States.
The indictment charging RAMOS with one count of re-entry by a removed alien also included a notice of sentencing enhancement based on RAMOS’s prior aggravated felony conviction. With the enhancement, the single count carries a maximum statutory penalty of twelve (20) years imprisonment, a fine of $250,000, and three (3) years of supervised release following any term of imprisonment. Sentencing has been scheduled for September 22, 2011 at 9:30 A.M.
The case was investigated by U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations.
The case is being prosecuted by Special Assistant U. S. Attorney Robert Weir.
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