Mexican citizen arrested by La Porte County Sheriff's Office sentenced to 16 months

LA PORTE COUNTY, Ind. -- The La Porte County Sheriff's Office assisted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently to apprehend a man who repeatedly re-entered the United States after being deported.

Jose De Jesus Rosales-Gamez, a 44-year-old citizen of Mexico, was sentenced in a U.S. District Court this week after pleading guilty to illegal re-entry of a deported alien, announced U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.

Rosales-Gamez was sentenced to 16 months in prison.

According to documents in the case, Rosales-Gamez illegally entered or attempted to enter the United States and was removed four times from the mid-1990s through 2016. Rosales-Gamez yet again illegally returned to the United States in 2016 or 2017 following two prior felony convictions.