Sioux City, IA (Northwestiowanow.com) — A Honduras man has been sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally re-entering the United States after being deported twice.
District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand Friday sentenced 37-year-old Carlos Castro-Izaguirre to 30 months behind bars and two years of probation.
The case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security and the Buena Vista County Sheriff’s Department and prosecuted by Assistant US Attorney Kraig R. Hamit.
Hamit’s office says Castro-Izaguirre was arrested for OWI in Buena Vista County in May of 2024, with a subsequent investigation revealing he was convicted of delivery of methamphetamine in Cherokee County in 2007 and sentenced to prison for that offense. He was deported in 2009. He was found in Texas in 2017 and convicted of illegal re-entry at that time and deported again in 2019. It’s unknown at what point he again illegally re-entered the United States.
He is currently in the custody of the U.S. Marshal’s service awaiting assignment to a federal facility.
