Examples of Serious Crimes of Illegal Aliens

The information below is taken from news sources. The aliens in these reports were all identified as being in the country illegally, and many of them had come into the hands of law enforcement agencies prior to the crime that is described below, but the alien was not deported or in some cases was deported but reentered the country.

These cases are listed as a demonstration that better prevention of illegal immigration is a public safety issue even though these cases are not representative of the illegal alien population in general. These cases refer to crimes other than terrorism.

• June 2013 — Arlex Cardenas Flores, an illegal alien construction worker in Virginia, was convicted of attempted abduction of a female Virginia Tech student. He faces a possible sentence of 10 years imprisonment. ( WSLS-TV, Roanoke, VA)

• June 2013 — Luis Alberto Hernandez Garcia, an illegal alien, was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana in Brownsville, Texas. He was sentenced to more than 11 years imprisonment. (Brownsville Herald, June 4, 2013)

• May 2013 — An illegal alien — whose identity was withheld to protect the identity of his victim — pled guilty and was convicted in Oklahoma for the statutory rape of an 11-year old child. He was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. (KWSO Channel 7 News, May 1, 2013)

• April 2013 — A Moroccan, Mohammed Mamdouh, was sentenced to five years imprisonment after pleading guilty in February 2012 to conspiracy to a crime of terrorism, criminal possession of a weapon and attempted possession of a weapon as a crime of terrorism in New York City. Mamdouh's fellow conspirator, Algerian Ahmed Ferhani, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in March. (Businessweek, April 26, 2013).

• April 2013 — Oscar Hernandez, a Mexican illegal alien was convicted in New Mexico of the murder of a woman in a fight and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. (Albuquerque Journal, April 11, 2013)

• March 2013 — Angel  Campos Tellez, a Mexican illegal alien, pled guilty to helping run a prostitution ring in Maryland and Delaware. Tellez had been previously deported twice. (Washington Post, March 27, 2013)

• March 2013 — Daniel Ignacio, a Guatemalan illegal alien, was found guilty of murder, arson and assault for torching a tenement that killed five. He faces imprisonment of 25 years to life. (New York Times, March 12, 2013)

• February 2013 — Yanira del Carmen Guerrero Andrade, a Salvadoran illegal alien residing in Maryland, pled guilty to child sex trafficking for recruiting a run-away, pregnant 15-year-old into prostitution. (U.S. Department of Justice press release, February 13, 2013).

• January 2013 — Pereira, a Salvadoran illegal alien was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for beating his ex-girlfriend to death in 2012 in Nebraska. (1011Now news, January 4, 2013)

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• December 2012 — A Trinidadian, Garvin Cadogan, was sentenced in El Paso, Texas to 13 years in federal prison for child pornography and falsely using stolen identity documents to claim U.S. citizenship. (UPI December 18, 2012)

• December 2012 — Jonas Rodríguez Pérez, an illegal alien who had been deported in 2010, pled guilty to a second-degree felony count of manslaughter for the shooting death of a rival gang member in Utah. He faces a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. Rodriguez was also found to have other outstanding arrest warrants including one for drunk driving in San Diego. (Salt Lake Tribune, December 17, 2012)  

• December 2012 — Yimmy Pineda-Penado, a Salvadoran, was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for being part of an MS-13 gang-run juvenile prostitution ring in Fairfax, Virginia. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement press release, December 14, 2012)

• November 2012 — An illegal alien, Alejandro Uriostegui-Rodriguez, pled guilty to narcotics trafficking in Bakersfield, Calif. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison. (BakersfileldNow.com November 26, 2012)

• October 2012 — Pedro Espinoza, an illegal alien gang member who was convicted of first degree murder in Los Angeles, was sentenced to death for the shooting death of Jamiel Shaw, a local teenager whom he mistook as a rival gang member. Prior to the murder, Espinoza had been detained and released by the LAPD earlier for possession of a knife, but they had not alerted immigration authorities. (Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2012)

• October 2012 — Luis Rodriguez-Flamenco, an illegal alien, pled guilty to the second degree stabbing murder of a woman who was a recent doctoral graduate. He was sentenced in New York to life in prison. (AP in Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2012)

• October 2012 — Juan Ramon Hernandez, an illegal alien, was sentenced in Dallas, Texas to 15 years in prison for causing a drunk driving accident that killed his passenger and seriously injured another. (Dallas Morning News, October 25, 2012)

• October 2012 — Jose Lorenzo Cardona-Paguada, an Honduran illegal alien pled guilty to abetting prostitution in Vermont and was sentenced to ten months in prison. (AP news in San Francisco Chronicle, October 17, 2012)

• October 2012 — Sergio Barraza-Pinera, a Mexican illegal alien, pled guilty and was sentenced to six years imprisonment for cocaine distribution in Tennessee. (The Tennessean, October 15, 2012)

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