MEDFORD: A federal judge in Medford made sure that a Mexican drug dealer, deported six times for criminal convictions, spends a longer stretch of time in the U.S.
Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Zeus Apolo Guzman-Aguilar to nearly five years in prison 57 months for illegally reentering the U.S. after his most recent drug conviction.
Guzman-Aguilar’s latest series of troubles began on June 17, 2013, when the U.S. deported him back to Mexico after his release from an Oregon state prison.
Medford police got a tip he was back in town dealing drugs. They searched his home, where they found heroin packaged for sale, along with digital scales, the US Attorney’s Office reported.
He was convicted again in Oregon for delivery of heroin and was sentenced to a little less than two years in prison.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents learned he had been detained again and confirmed he had been sent back to Mexico six times after drug convictions, Assistant U.S. Attorney Byron Chatfield reported.
