Serial Border Crosser Sentenced to 94 Months

TUCSON, Ariz. Arturo Ramirez-Garcia, 34, of Mexico City, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge James C. Cacheris to 94 months in federal prison for Attempted Illegal Re-entry after Deportation. Ramirez-Garcia received consecutive sentences of 70 months in prison for the re-entry charge and an additional 24 months in prison for violating federal supervised release. Arturo Ramirez-Garcia pleaded guilty on October 28, 2009, to Attempted Illegal Re-entry After Deportation and admitted to violating the conditions of his supervised release from another illegal re-entry charge, by committing this offense. On June 2, 2009, Ramirez-Garcia jumped the International Boundary Fence in Nogales, Arizona, together with two other illegal aliens. Further investigation revealed that Ramirez-Garcia had been previously removed from the United States on May 15, 2009, after serving a sentence of 24 months imprisonment for a previous Re-entry After Deportation conviction and was under a 36-month term of supervised release. Ramirez-Garcias sentence was enhanced due to a previous conviction for Attempted Burglary, in addition to another prior illegal re-entry conviction and a drug conviction. The investigation in this case was conducted by U.S. Border Patrol.