Mexican National Sentenced to Additional 18 Months for Illegal Reentry After Drug Trafficking Conviction in Polk County

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara handed down a sentence to Ramon Ochoa, a 43-year-old Mexican national, enforcing an 18-month federal prison term to run consecutively with an ongoing sentence for a state-level drug trafficking offense. Ochoa, with prior deportations under his belt from 2008 and 2014, reentered the United States illegally, a fact surfaced during his arrest in Polk County, as reported by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.

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