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Elder Moises Ramirez-Melgar, Illegally Reentering the United States, Iowa 2022

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Iowa Man Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Reentering the United States

A Postville, Iowa man has been sentenced to four months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after being deported four times.

Elder Moises Ramirez-Melgar, 30, a citizen of Honduras illegally present in the United States, pleaded guilty to one count of illegal reentry into the United States after having been deported.

According to court documents, Ramirez-Melgar was previously deported in September 2014 and March 2016. In February 2017, he was convicted in Arizona of illegal entry into the United States and again deported in March 2017. In March 2020, Ramirez-Melgar was again convicted in Arizona of illegal entry into the United States and again deported in May 2020.

On October 3, 2022, immigration officials learned Ramirez-Melgar had illegally returned to the United States and found him at the Allamakee County Jail following his arrest on state charges.

Ramirez-Melgar was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge C.J. Williams. He was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment and must also serve a one-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

Ramirez-Melgar is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel C. Tvedt and investigated by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations.

Court file information can be found at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.

The case file number is 22-CR-1038.

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