A Mexican criminal alien wanted in his native country for firearms-related charges was turned over to Mexican law enforcement authorities at the Dennis DeConcini port of entry Tuesday by ICE officers. Rodriquez-Reina is the subject of a criminal arrest warrant issued in April 2006 by a district court in Sonora, Mexico, charging him with carrying firearms for the exclusive use of the military.
Neri Cristobal Rodriguez-Reina, 31, was turned over to Mexican federal police by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers just hours after completing a multi-year prison term with the Arizona Department of Corrections for convictions including felony burglary.
Rodriquez-Reina was admitted to the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident in 1992. In May 2000, as he was returning to Arizona from a trip to Mexico, U.S. port authorities in Sasabe identified him as being the subject of an outstanding felony arrest warrant issued by the Pima County Sheriff’s Office. He was paroled into the U.S. and subsequently convicted in Pima County court of felony solicitation to commit burglary, and sentenced to one year in state prison.
Following this prison term, the former Immigration and Naturalization Service placed Rodriguez-Reina in removal proceedings and an immigration judge ordered him deported to his native Mexico in November 2000. Rodriguez-Reina subsequently reentered the U.S. illegally in March 2006, just prior to Mexican authorities issuing the arrest warrant related to firearms charges.
In February 2007, Rodriguez-Reina was convicted again in Pima County court of felony first degree burglary charges, and sentenced to five years in state prison. Upon his incarceration, ERO Phoenix placed an immigration detainer on Rodriguez-Reina, and later reinstated his prior deportation order.