SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a defendant was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison on one count of re-entry of a removed alien.
Jose Juan Rodriguez-Guarda, 32, of Chiapas, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote on one count of re-entry of a removed alien. According to the October 27, 2015 guilty plea, Rodriguez-Guarda had illegally re-entered the United States multiple times since 2009 after being removed. In June 2012, Rodriguez-Guarda was removed as an aggravated felon from the United States after being convicted of attempted human smuggling in Arizona in 2011.
Rodriguez-Guarda was arrested in Virginia on January 25, 2013, two days after he had kidnapped his girlfriend at knife point in Bossier Parish and took her to Virginia where he already had their 7-year-old daughter. The defendant pleaded guilty to simple kidnapping in Bossier Parish District Court on June 22, 2015.
Homeland Security Investigations-Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and the Bossier City Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael O’Mara prosecuted the case.