ALBANY, NEW YORK – Maria Utrera-Viveros, a/k/a Maria
Utrara-Viveros, age 33, of Veracruz, Mexico, was sentenced today to time served
(5 months in jail), for illegal re-entry into the United States.
The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C.
Jaquith and Robert N. Garcia, Chief Patrol Agent, United States Border Patrol,
Swanton Sector.
As part of her guilty plea, Utrera-Viveros admitted that she
was removed from the United States to Mexico on October 17, 2014. Utrera-Viveros admitted that she returned to
the United States on November 15, 2019 by illegally entering from Canada. That night, she was found to be a passenger
in a vehicle that Border Patrol stopped after it left the area of the
international border at a high rate of speed.
Following her sentencing, Utrera-Viveros was remanded to the
custody of the Department of Homeland Security, for removal proceedings.
The case was investigated by the United States Border Patrol
and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas Collyer.
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