South Carolina gang member guilty on federal immigration charges
February 12th, 2010 - 3:50 pm ICT by BNO NewsCOLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA (BNO NEWS) – A gang member pleaded guilty on Thursday to illegally entering the United States after deportation, U.S. Attorney Kevin McDonald said.
Leonardo DeLeon, 30, is a resident of Myrtle Beach, SC where the local police identified him as a member of the Mexican mafia street gang. After being taken into custody by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, fingerprints analysis threw out that DeLeon was the same man convicted in 1999 in an attempted murder case in Texas.
In 2001, the defendant was deported to his native Honduras and illegally re-entered the U.S. and established himself in Myrtle Beach.
Prosecutors indicated that DeLeon could face a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment.
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