PORTLAND, Maine: A Honduran man pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for illegally reentering the country after a prior removal.
Chief U.S. District Judge Lance E. Walker sentenced Jonnatan Irias-Lainez, 31, to time served (99 days).
According to court records, on May 28, 2025, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested Irias-Lainez following a traffic stop in Biddeford. Irias-Lainez had been removed from the United States on January 11, 2019, after entering the country illegally from Mexico.
ICE ERO investigated the case.
Operation Take Back America: This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) and Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN).