Five foreign nationals have been sentenced in January for illegally reentering the United States after previous deportations, according to an announcement from United States Attorney David Metcalf.
Roberto Garcia-Antonio, also known as Angel Rondon and Roberto Sandoval-Antonio, a 49-year-old Dominican national, received an 18-month prison sentence from United States District Judge Timothy J. Savage for illegal reentry. After serving his sentence, Garcia-Antonio will be removed from the country again. He has been previously removed five times and this is his fifth conviction for illegal reentry. His prior prosecutions include two in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (May 2011 and March 2015) and two in the Southern District of Texas (January 2013 and November 2016). Law enforcement encountered him during a state search warrant at a Philadelphia home in January 2025, after which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took him into custody.
Ricardo Henriquez Carmona, also known as Dario Henriquez, age 55 and also from the Dominican Republic, was sentenced by United States District Judge Kelley Brisbon Hodge to 14 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release. He will be removed from the country after completing his sentence. Henriquez Carmona had been previously deported in 1997 following a narcotics conviction in Puerto Rico. Since then he illegally reentered the U.S., accumulating multiple convictions under various aliases for offenses such as drug sales, property theft, resisting arrest, trespassing, and aggravated assault.
Magdaleno Ochoa-Avalos, a 42-year-old Mexican national, was sentenced by United States District Judge Mia Roberts Perez to just over one year in prison for illegal reentry; he will be removed from the country for a sixth time upon completion of his sentence. Ochoa-Avalos had previously been deported following a homicide by vehicle conviction in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was subsequently removed three times after encounters with Border Patrol agents in Arizona during August 2008 and once more following an illegal reentry conviction in South Carolina in August 2020.
Luis Urrutia-Noyola, age 33 and also from Mexico, received a time-served sentence—approximately four months—from United States District Judge Gerald A. McHugh for illegal reentry. He will be deported again now that he has completed his sentence. Urrutia-Noyola had been previously deported after being stopped by Border Patrol agents in California in April 2018.
Diego Jacome-Esquibel, a Mexican national aged 51, was sentenced by United States District Judge Gail A. Weilheimer to time served—about three-and-a-half months—for illegal reentry and will again be removed from the country after serving his sentence. Jacome-Esquibel had prior removals following encounters with Border Patrol officers in Texas and Arizona during March and April of 2012.
“These cases are part of Operation Take Back America,” said U.S. Attorney David Metcalf’s office statement. “Operation Take Back America is a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime.”
The investigations were conducted by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations along with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The cases were prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Kwambina Coker, Eileen Castilla Geiger, S. Chandler Harris, Justin Ashenfelter, and Jessica Rice.
