By MATT PIKE
A Guatemalan illegal alien residing in St. Joseph was sentenced in federal court for reentering the United States after being deported.
39 year old Byron Perez-Roblero was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to 14 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release for reentering the United States after deportation. Perez-Roblero was arrested September 18th, 2025, in St. Joseph by investigators and officers with Homeland Security Investigations, the United States Marshals Service, the Missouri Highway Patrol, and the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department, who were serving a federal warrant for another subject.
Perez-Roblero had been deported from the United States five times, in 2009, 2011, 2017, 2020, and 2021 Perez-Roblero had a 2021 felony conviction for illegal reentry in United States District Court in Tucson, Arizona.
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