NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today
that JOSE ARMANDO VILLALOBOS (“VILLALOBOS”), age 49, a citizen of El Salvador,
was sentenced on April 30, 2020 to serve (12) months in Federal Prison on a
one-count indictment for preventing or hampering his departure from the United
States after he was ordered removed by a U.S. Immigration Court in violation of
Title 8, United States Code, Section 1253(a)(1)(C).
According to the indictment, VILLALOBOS, who had an order of
removal pending against him from a U.S. Immigration Court, hampered his removal
when he fled immigration officers as they tried to arrest him on July 25,
2019. VILLALOBOS, faced a maximum term
of imprisonment of four years, a maximum fine of $250,000, a maximum term of
supervised release of one year, and a mandatory $100 special assessment.
U.S. Attorney Strasser praised the work of the United States
Department of Homeland Security in investigating this matter. Assistant U. S. Attorney Spiro G. Latsis is
in charge of the prosecution.
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