A Dominican national currently incarcerated in Massachusetts has pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Carlos Alexander Martinez-Jimenez, 48, entered his plea before U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman in Worcester federal court. Sentencing is scheduled for February 9, 2026.
Martinez-Jimenez was indicted by a federal grand jury in December 2025 while serving a state prison sentence at Souza-Baronowski Correction Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
According to court records, Martinez-Jimenez was previously convicted in February 2017 of furnishing a false name or Social Security number and identity fraud in Fall River District Court. He served 134 days in state prison for those offenses and was removed from the United States following completion of his sentence in April 2017.
On January 31, 2024, Martinez-Jimenez was convicted again—this time for trafficking between 18 and less than 36 grams of heroin, morphine, opium, or fentanyl—in Essex Superior Court. He received a three-and-a-half to five-year state prison sentence and is still serving that term.
The charge of unlawful reentry carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison, up to three years of supervised release, and a fine as high as $250,000. Following any imposed sentence, Martinez-Jimenez faces deportation proceedings. Sentences are determined by a federal district court judge based on U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and relevant statutes.
“United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Patricia H. Hyde, Field Office Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations in Boston made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Meghan C. Cleary and Zachary Stendig of the Criminal Division are prosecuting the case.”
