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| Determined Illegal Alien Gets 7 1/2 Years |
| 2010-06-29 |
| 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 |
| #6 *ding ding ding* Winner! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-29 21:54 |
| #5 Low Altitude No Open? |
| Posted by: tipover 2010-06-29 21:47 |
| #4 should've been |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-29 21:07 |
| #3 Strike a deal with the Mexico prison service so he can serve out his days there. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-06-29 19:45 |
| #2 "Some people cannot take a hint." I dunno - looks to me like he's figured out a way to get a guaranteed 3 hots & a cot - probably in much better conditions than he would face in Old Mehico. I wouldn't be surprised to see him re-entering illegally again in 8 years or so. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-29 18:58 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-29 18:46 |