PENSACOLA, Fla. ( WKRG ) — A Mexican citizen who has been removed by the United States twice was sentenced to 46 months in a federal prison for illegal reentry by removed alien, according to Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida Michelle Spaven.
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“Despite being removed from the United States on multiple occasions, Mr. Sanchez-De La Rosa unlawfully re-entered the country and continued to endanger lives through repeated DUI offenses,” Juan Agudelo, the Miami office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Office’s acting field director, said.
According to the release, Rafael Sanchez-De La Rosa, 51, was arrested on May 5, 2024, in Pensacola and charged with driving under the influence, his third DUI in ten years. At the time of his last arrest, Sanchez-De La Rosa was reportedly driving nearly 20 miles over the speed limit and allegedly had open containers of beer in his car.
That is when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents realized Sanchez-De La Rosa was in the country illegally, the release said.
“Sanchez-De La Rosa had been previously removed from the United States to Mexico in 2017 and again in 2018,” the release said.
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Sanchez-De La Rosa has DUI convictions in Escambia County, Florida, in 2014, 2015 and 2024, the release said. According to the release, two of those convictions were felony convictions…