SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Mexican national was sentenced Monday to 13 months in prison on one count of re-entry of a removed alien.
Saul Abundis Cordova, 39, of Ocampo, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote on one count of re-entry of a removed alien. According to evidence presented at the November 17, 2016, guilty plea, Shreveport Police arrested Cordova on January 15, 2015, for driving while intoxicated, and on July 22, 2015, he was convicted of driving while intoxicated for the fourth time. Cordova had been removed from the United States to Mexico on at least three previous occasions in 2008, 2009 and 2014. The removal on June 12, 2014, occurred after Cordova was convicted of felony possession of Schedule II controlled substances, cocaine, which resulted in a sentencing enhancement of a convicted felon.
Homeland Security Investigations-Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and the Shreveport Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael O’Mara prosecuted the case.