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Jonathan Alcequiez-Sanchez was convicted of drug distribution and weapons charges in December 2021 in Lawrence District Court and served a sentence in prison until earlier this month, the US Attorney's Office said. But Alcequiez-Sanchez is not supposed to be in the United States.
The foreign-born man was deported from the US in 2018 after police in New York arrested him for unlawful entry, the prosecutor said. It's unclear when he returned to the country.
The charge of unlawful reentry of a deported alien carries a possible sentence of two decades and a fine of up to $250,000, federal authorities said.
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