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ISAAC SANDOVAL-ROMERO SENTENCED FOR ILLEGAL RE-ENTRY
ISAAC SANDOVAL-ROMERO, age 28, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon to approximately four months imprisonment, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to court documents, on April 26, 2012, SANDOVAL pled guilty to one count of an indictment admitting he was an alien who was previously removed and was knowingly and unlawfully found in the United States in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana without the Attorney General or Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, having expressly consented to his re-application for admission into the United States. SANDOVAL’s sentence was subject to an enhancement based on a previous felony conviction.
The case was investigated by U. S. Homeland Security Investigations. The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Robert Weir.