(Sioux City)– A Honduras man has been sentenced in federal court in a case with ties to northwest Iowa.
The U.S. Attorney’s office says 37-year-old Carlos Castro-Izaguirre was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty previously to illegal reentry. Prosecutors say he was arrested in May of last year in Buena Vista county for OWI and was released before ICE could conduct an interview. Further investigation revealed Castro-Izaguirre was a resident of Honduras and had previously been removed from the U.S two other times. Prior to his first removal he was convicted in Cherokee county on a drug charge and was found again after that in Texas where he was convicted of illegal reentry and was sentenced to federal prison. Castro-Izaguirre returned to Honduras in 2019 and re-entered the U.S again after that.
He was sentenced Friday to two and-a-half years in federal prison along with two years of supervised release. Castro-Izaguirre is being held in the custody of a U.S. Marshal pending transport to a federal prison.
