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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2007
ILLEGAL ALIEN GETS 3 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON
FOR FAILURE TO REGISTER AS SEX OFFENDER,
ULAWFUL RE-ENTRY AFTER DEPORTATION
WICHITA, KAN. – Armondo Beltran-Gonzalez, 43, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced Monday to 36 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to re-entry after deportation and failure to register as a sex offender.
“When he is released from prison he will be deported again,” said U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren. “And he is banned for life from becoming a U.S. citizen.”
This is the first conviction in Kansas under the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection Act, Melgren said. The Wash Act which makes it a federal offense to fail to register as a sex offender when required to do so by state or federal law. The act is named for the son of John Walsh, host of FOX’s American’s Most Wanted. Adam Walsh was abducted and murdered in 1981.
Beltran-Gonzalez was sentenced Monday before U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten. He was indicted in the case March 21.
According to court documents filed in the case, in 1995 Beltran-Gonzalez was convicted in Sedgwick County District Court of aggravated solicitation of a child. He was notified at that time of the state law requirement that he be registered as a sex offender in the county of his residence. He was deported to Mexico in 2005 but unlawfully re-entered the U.S. in August 2006. He returned to Wichita but failed to register or notify the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Dept. of his presence and change of address, Melgren said.
The case was investigated by the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Dept., the Wichita Police Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Anderson. Additional information about sex offender registration laws is available on the Internet. The federal sex offender registration site is at http://www.nsopr.gov/. The KBI sex offender web site is at http://www.kansas.gov/kbi/ro.shtml.
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