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Determined Illegal Alien Gets 7 1/2 Years
A Mexican resident was recently sentenced to 90 months (7.5 years) in federal prison for illegal re-entry into the United States following four previous deportations and four years of mental-competency evaluations.Horacio Figueroa-Medina, 41, of Hermosillo, was arrested on suspicion of illegal re-entry in February of 2006, officials from the U.S. District Attorney's Office of Arizona said. Tucson police officers pulled over Figueroa-Medina for a traffic violation and discovered he had been deported four times, most recently serving a 57-month (4.75 year) sentence for re-entry after deportation. Police then turned the case over to U.S. Border Patrol, officials said. Authorities said Figueroa-Medina attempted to present himself as mentally incompetent to stand trial by, among other things, trying to injure himself with a shoe in front of the jury. Mental-health professionals and U.S. District Court Judge Raner C. Collins, who sentenced Figueroa-Medina, eventually declared him competent after four years of evaluations, officials said. A federal jury in Tucson found him guilty of re-entering the country illegally. He was sentenced June 21. In sentencing the defendant, Collins considered Figueroa-Medina's criminal history: He had two prior illegal re-entry convictions and three drug-trafficking convictions, officials said. Some people cannot take a hint. Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-29 |
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