Citizen of Honduras Pleads Guilty to Reentering U.S. after Being Deported

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, December 8, 2017

John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANKLIN OMAR RODRIGUEZ, 36, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Norwalk, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of reentry of a removed alien.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in December 2005, RODRIGUEZ was convicted in Carroll County, Georgia, of statutory rape and was sentenced to time served and three years of probation.  In February 2009, RODRIGUEZ was convicted in Carroll County, Georgia, of failure to register as a sex offender and two counts of false identification documents and was sentenced to 10 years of incarceration, execution suspended after two years, followed by eight years of probation.  In February 2011, RODRIGUEZ was deported from the U.S. to Honduras.

RODRIGUEZ illegally reentered the U.S. and, on January 13, 2017, was arrested by Stamford Police for the sale of illegal drugs, possession of narcotics with intent to sell and interfering/resisting arrest.

Judge Shea scheduled sentencing for March 6, 2018, at which time RODRIGUEZ faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.

The state case is pending in Stamford Superior Court.

This investigation was conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations.  The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah R. Slater.