Six individuals who were in the United States illegally, five of whom have felony convictions, have been sentenced to federal prison for illegal reentry offenses in the Southern District of Indiana. The cases involved defendants from Monroe, Dubois, Marion, and Perry counties and were prosecuted separately.
The sentences varied based on prior removals and criminal histories. Teodulo Gonzalez-Parral, 51, of Mexico received three years and ten months in prison after multiple previous removals and convictions including operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and assault. Raymundo Antonio Galdamez-Lobo, 44, of El Salvador was sentenced to three years and one month; his record includes several removals and convictions such as burglary and resisting arrest.
Jorge A. Esparza-Reyna, 32, of Mexico was sentenced to seven months following prior removals and two DUI convictions. Noe Hernandez-Cocullo, 37; Amin Derli Reynosa-Diaz, 29; and Martin Cortez-Lopez, 36—all from Mexico—received time served for offenses including recklessly endangering the safety of a child, domestic battery, possession of a controlled substance, resisting an officer with violence, and disorderly intoxication.
Upon completion of their sentences, all defendants will be subject to removal from the United States. Conditions require them to surrender to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement upon release.
“Violent criminal aliens who repeatedly violate our immigration laws and endanger our communities must face real consequences,” said Tom Wheeler, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. “Through Operation Take Back America, we are unleashing the full force of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal aliens and ensure that those who threaten our security face swift and decisive justice.”
The investigations were conducted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations. Sentences were handed down by U.S. District Judges Richard L. Young, Matthew P. Brookman, Tanya Walton Pratt, and James P. Hanlon.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Todd Shellenbarger, Matthew Miller, Meredith Wood, Carolyn Haney, and Lauren Wheatley prosecuted these cases.
These prosecutions are part of Operation Take Back America—a national initiative that coordinates resources from the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) and Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) to address illegal immigration as well as cartel- or transnational criminal organization-related crime.
