LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KOLO) – A pair of Mexican nationals the DOJ says were residing in Las Vegas have been charged with illegally reentering the U.S.
41-year-old Juan Carlos Verdin-Covarrubias and 44-year-old Uriel Lira-Cabrera were both charged with one count of being a deported alien living in the U.S. Both were previously deported and removed from the country.
Verdin-Covarrubias was remanded to the custody of ICE from the Nevada Department of Corrections on March 12. He was deported in April of 2006 after he had been convicted of unlawful sale of a controlled substance in Washoe County.
The DOJ says that, after illegally re-entering the country, he was again convicted of drug-related offenses, this time in Clark County in February 2022. He was sentenced to 36 to 96 months of prison.
Lira-Cabrera was arrested in Las Vegas on March 5. He had previously been deported six times between February 2007 and November 2021. Prior to his first deportation, he had previously been convicted of assault with a deadly weapon by means likely to produce great bodily harm in Los Angeles County.
He also has two prior felony convictions for illegally re-entering the country, once in Arizona and another time in Nevada.
Both face 20 years in prison if convicted, three years parole, and a $250,000 fine.
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