Woman sentenced to 36 months in prison

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Published/Last Modified on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:03 PM MST


A 30-year-old woman from Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, who was apprehended by Douglas Station Border Patrol agents in February 2011, was sentenced last week to 36 months of confinement.


The U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuted Maria Soto-Favela following her 2011 apprehension for attempting to illegally re-enter the United States. During processing, agents using the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System learned that Soto-Favela was convicted in 2002 in Maricopa County, Arizona, for felony armed robbery, felony attempted aggravated assault and theft. She was sentenced to four years in prison. Records also indicated Soto-Favela was previously deported from the United States in January 2011.

Following the Border Patrol’s initial processing, the case was submitted to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for re-entry of a felon. Soto-Favela will be formally removed from the U.S. following her 36-month incarceration and is now banned for life from all legalization processes.

 

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Comments

    ArizonaCowboy wrote on Mar 6, 2012 8:28 AM:

    " 36-months!!!!? Doesn't the feds realize that that is why they keep coming back!? Because the United States keeps them in our prison systems where they are given a free bed, breakfast, lunch, and dinner and all in the luxury of a clean prison where they can sit all day and visit with other friends/relatives from Mexico while watching their soaps in spanish brought to them from the cable network. And guess who is paying for their stay? Yea, the U.S. taxpayers. When are these feds going to catch on to what these people are doing? Come on guys, get some sense into your heads!!! Geeez. "

    Jerry wrote on Mar 5, 2012 2:47 PM:

    " Doesn't anyone realize that this is exactly what she wanted?? Now we get to pay for her 36 month detention and the Mexican gov't doesn't have to do a thing. What a broken system... "

    Robert Burkowski wrote on Mar 4, 2012 9:31 PM:

    " 48 months for: armed robbery, attempted aggragated assault, and theft? And now she gets 36 months. What a f-ing joke! "

    Teacher wrote on Mar 1, 2012 9:07 AM:

    " Of course we will be paying for all 36 months of her being in "confinement" (which will probably only be a few months thanks to overcrowding). "

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