Three-Time Deported Mexican National Pleads Guilty To A Fourth Charge Of Illegal Reentry

Saturday, January 31, 2026, 8:30 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

BALTIMORE, MD.- On Thursday, a 34-year-old Mexican National, and three-time deported illegal immigrant, learned he will have to spend nine months in federal prison before being removed from the United States after pleading guilty and being sentenced to illegally being present in the U.S. after being deported.

     According to U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes, on Thursday, January 29, 2026, Marvin Escobar-Artega, 34, of Mexico, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and pleaded guilty before a U.S. District Court Judge to Illegal Reentry into the United States by a Deported Alien. After pleading Guilty Escobar-Artega was immediately sentenced to 9 months in federal prison.

     According to the federal criminal complaint, on January 18, 2025, members of the Baltimore City Police Department arrested Escobar-Artega on unrelated Maryland State charges. During his arrest procedure, law enforcement officers learned that Escobar-Artega was an illegal alien previously removed from the United States.

     Escobar-Artega knowingly and voluntarily reentered the United States on an unknown date and location without permission or legal authorization to do so. Law enforcement officials caught Escobar-Artega illegally reentering the United States on three prior occasions, all within a two-week span. He was last removed from the United States on April 22, 2020.

     According to statements made during his plea allocution, Escobar-Artega admitted that on February 28, 2020, he first unlawfully entered the United States at the Southern Border, near Donna, Texas, without permission or customs inspection. Later that same day, a U.S. Immigration Judge issued an Expedited Removal Order, resulting in Escobar-Artega being removed to Mexico on March 1, 2020.

     Just four days later, on March 5, 2020, Escobar-Artega illegally reentered the U.S. for a second time, this time near Progreso, Texas. Law Enforcement Officers apprehended and deported Escobar-Artega to Mexico the following day, on March 6, 2020. Then, on March 10, 2020, Escobar-Artega illegally reentered the United States, for a third time, near Hidalgo, Texas, resulting in Law Enforcement deporting him to Mexico for the third time, on April 22, 2020.

     Upon completion of his term of imprisonment, Escobar-Artega will be immediately removed from the United States back to Mexico.

     U.S. Attorney Hayes commended the investigative work of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement Removal Operations, which led to the successful prosecution of Escobar-Artega.