A Dominican national, Carlos Alexander Martinez-Jimenez, was sentenced on April 8 in federal court in Worcester to one year in prison for unlawfully reentering the United States after being deported.
Martinez-Jimenez, age 49, received his sentence from U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman. The prison term will be served consecutively to his current state prison sentence. After completing his sentence, he is subject to deportation.
In January 2026, Martinez-Jimenez pleaded guilty to a single count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien following an indictment by a federal grand jury in December 2025. His prior convictions include Furnishing a False Name or Social Security Number and Identity Fraud in February 2017 at Fall River District Court, which led to a state prison sentence and removal from the United States in April that same year.
Authorities said that sometime after his removal in April 2017, Martinez-Jimenez returned illegally to the country. On January 31, 2024, he was convicted of trafficking between eighteen and thirty-six grams of heroin, morphine, opium or fentanyl by Essex Superior Court and is currently serving three-and-a-half to five years for that offense.
United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and David T. Wesling, Acting Field Office Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations in Boston announced the sentencing decision. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Meghan C. Cleary and Zachary Stendig prosecuted the case.
