(Sioux City)—A man who illegally re-entered the U.S. from Mexico has been sentenced to nine months in federal prison.
28-year-old Eliseo Hernandez-Pacheco was sentenced March 25th in U.S. District Court in Sioux City after pleading guilty in December of last year to one count of illegal re-entry. At the plea hearing, Hernandez-Pacheco admitted he had been previously deported from the U.S. four different times.
Hernandez-Pacheco came to the attention of Homeland Securities investigators on October 9th of last year when he was arrested in Dickinson county for driving while suspended and improperly tinted windows.
Hernandez-Pacheco is being held in the custody of a U.S. Marshal pending transport to a federal prison.
