BOSTON - A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
Nestor Mendez Nolasco, 26, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin to one count of illegal reentry of a deported alien. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
Mendez Nolasco was previously deported on Jan. 31, 2013, April 9, 2013, and July 7, 2013. On April 25, 2017, Mendez was arrested in Hopkinton on an unrelated state charge.
Mendez Nolasco faces a sentence of no greater than 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release, a fine of $250,000, and will be subject to deportation upon completion of any sentence imposed. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb and Michael Shea, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, made the announcement today. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Soivilien of Weinreb’s Major Crimes Unit is prosecuting this case.