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ALIEN SENTENCED AFTER ILLEGAL RE-ENTRY
March 5, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JOSE TORRES-MORALES, age 27, a resident of Mexico, was sentenced by Judge Ivan R. Lemelle to fifty-seven (57) years imprisonment and three (3) years of supervised release after pleading guilty to illegal re-entry by an alien previously deported, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to court documents, on July 27, 2007, JOSE TORRES-MORALES, an alien who had previously been removed and deported from the United States, was knowingly and unlawfully found in the United States within the Eastern District of Louisiana, without have applied to the Attorney General of the United States or his designated successor, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security for re-admission to the United States.
JOSE TORRES-MORALES, will be deported to Mexico after his release from confinement.
The case was investigated by the U. S. Border Patrol Agents. The prosecution is being handled by Assistant U. S. Attorney W. Scott Laragy.
