Illegal Alien from Guatemala Sentenced to 10 Months in Prison

CONCORD, NH - An illegal alien from Guatemala by way of the Dominican Republic has been sentenced to re-entering the United States after previously being deported, according to U.S. Attorney Emily Gray Rice.

Victor Lopez was sentenced to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty to illegally reentering the country.

According to a press statement from Rice, on Feb. 15, 2016, an ICE-ERO Deportation Officer received a request for assistance form a New Hampshire State Police Trooper who he had stopped a vehicle for speeding on I-93 north bound in Windham.

"There were five individuals in the vehicle, two of whom provided the trooper with foreign ID cards," according to Rice. "The defendant and two other individuals refused to provide identification and refused to answer any questions. The Trooper requested that ICE-ERO assist with the identification of those three individuals in the vehicle."

An ICE-ERO Deportation Officer submitted the defendant’s fingerprints to databases of known fingerprints for comparison. The comparison identified the defendant as Victor Lopez and established that Lopez had been deported from the United States to Guatemala in 2012.