EAGLE PASS, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Eagle Pass South Station arrest a convicted murderer, Sept. 1.
Border Patrol Agents arrested Luis Perez-Gallegos, 33, a citizen of Mexico, shortly after he entered the United States illegally. During processing, agents discovered that in 2006, Perez-Gallegos was convicted of murder 2nd degree/with a deadly weapon in Miami-Dade County, Florida. For his crimes, he was sentenced to five years incarceration.
Perez-Gallegos was ordered removed by an immigration judge and subsequently removed from the United States in 2011.
As a convicted felon, he faces a charge of 8 USC § 1326 – Re-entry After Deportation, which carries a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
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