Mexican Man Sentenced For Illegal Reentry After Deportation

            CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE –United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced  today that Angel Rayas-Villasenor, of Mexico, was sentenced to time served after pleading guilty today to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported.  Rayas-Villasenor will be deported to Mexico.

            The Nashua Police Department arrested Rayas-Villasenor on November 26, 2015 for driving without a license.  Fingerprints taken by the Nashua Police in connection with the arrest matched fingerprints on file relating to the defendant’s prior deportation.  ICE ERO Deportation Officers arrested Rayas-Villasenor on December 8, 2015, after observing the Rayas-Villasenor exit his residence.  Following his arrest, Rayas-Villasenor was transported to the Manchester ICE Office where he was booked and processed, which included obtaining a full set of his fingerprints.  Those fingerprints were submitted to the Department of Homeland Security’s Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) for comparison to a database of known fingerprints.  IDENT matched the fingerprints to those in the database taken from the defendant on the occasion of his previous deportations to Mexico from Nogales, Arizona on August 6, 2014, and again on August 12, 2014.

            The case was investigated by the Nashua Police Department and the Department of Homeland Security and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alfred Rubega. 

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