Man sentenced for illegally re-entering the US (AP c/o The Sun Herald)

Man sentenced for illegally re-entering the US
The Associated Press
Friday, Jul. 30, 2010

GULFPORT, Miss. -- A deported man who admitted wading across the Rio Grande to illegally re-enter the United States has been sentenced to eight months in a federal prison.

The Sun Herald reports that District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. sentenced 28-year-old Yudary Uriel Castillo-Chapa on Wednesday. A year's probation follows the prison term.

Castillo-Chapa, of Reynosa, Mexico, was deported from the U.S. in May 2005 and banned from re-entering the country for five years. Four years later he crossed the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas, according to his recent interview with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

He was arrested March 1 in a traffic stop on Interstate 10 in Gulfport.