A 39-year-old Honduran citizen has been charged by federal criminal complaint with illegally reentering the United States after having previously been removed from the country, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
The defendant is identified as Belin Antonio Gonzalez-Garcia. The Justice Department said he also uses the names Belin Garcia and Belin Gonzalez. He is a citizen of Honduras.
The charge, illegal reentry of a removed alien, applies to foreign nationals who return to the United States after a formal removal order has been carried out. Federal prosecutors filed the case as a criminal complaint, the Justice Department said, which is a sworn statement by a law enforcement officer establishing probable cause that a crime was committed.
Gonzalez-Garcia is 39 years old. The Justice Department did not specify in its release when the prior removal took place, when he was found in the United States again, or in which federal district the complaint was filed. No information about a court date or detention status was included in the department's account of the case.
The complaint establishes that Gonzalez-Garcia had been formally removed from the United States on at least one prior occasion before returning.