By Tiffany Williams –
In the U.S. District Court in Boston on Monday, Tommy Raul Jimenez-Perez, a 26-year-old man originally from the Dominican Republic, received a sentence of 18 months in prison. This term will run concurrently with a previously imposed state drug sentence, which is set at five to seven years. Additionally, upon completion of his prison term, Jimenez-Perez will be subject to three years of supervised release.
In October 2023, Jimenez-Perez entered a guilty plea to the charge of unlawful reentry of a deported alien. According to the Department of Justice, Jimenez-Perez initially entered the United States from the Dominican Republic without undergoing the required inspection process on an unspecified date. Subsequent to this unauthorized entry, he was involved in two distinct narcotics-related cases in May 2018, which led to his earlier convictions.
Following these incidents, Jimenez-Perez departed the United States voluntarily, though the specific date of his departure remains unknown. His situation escalated in February 2020, when he was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol in Texas. During this encounter, authorities confirmed that he had reentered the United States unlawfully without inspection after his previous deportation. As a result, he was formally removed from the country on March 3, 2020.
Despite these legal challenges and his enforced removal, Jimenez-Perez unlawfully returned to the United States at a later date. His run-ins with the law continued, culminating in his arrest in January 2023 on new, unrelated charges. This recent legal history ultimately contributed to the sentence he received in Boston.