16 indicted in Louisville on criminal immigration violations

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Sixteen people are indicted on charges related to either reentering the United States after deportation or illegal possession of a firearm.

According to the United States Attorney’s Office, Western District of Kentucky, the indictments were returned on Wednesday.

This includes the following, according to the indictments:

• Moises Archaga-Garcia, 46, a citizen of Honduras, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 10, 2025, Archaga-Garcia was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed from the United States on or about July 30, 2003. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.
• Darwin Martinez-Figueroa, 41, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 11, 2025, Martinez-Figueroa was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed from the United States on or about May 17, 2014 and April 11, 2018. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Roberto Cruz-Pacheco, 34, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 11, 2025, Cruz-Pacheco was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed from the United States on or about December 31, 2008. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Jose Rodriguez, 39, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 11, 2025, Rodriguez was an alien found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed from the United States on or about December 1, 2011, and February 28, 2020. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Marcos Juarez-Morente, 38, a citizen of Guatemala, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 13, 2025, Juarez-Morente was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed from the United States on or about January 20, 2006, and May 19, 2006. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Lorenzo Perez-Perez, 33, a citizen of Guatemala, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 10, 2025, Perez-Perez was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed from the United States on or about December 7, 2011 and January 21, 2016. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Aroldo Rodriguez-Navarro, 40, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 10, 2025, Rodriguez-Navarro was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed from the United States on or about August 25, 2009 and June 5, 2014. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Ewin Cabrera-Cabrera, 33, a citizen of Honduras, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 11, 2025, Cabrera-Cabrera was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed from the United States on or about April 10, 2014 and February 7, 2013. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Williams Josue Rodriguez-Calix, 28, a citizen of Honduras, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 11, 2025, Rodriguez-Calix was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported, and removed from the United States on or about December 12, 2018. If convicted he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Esteban Perez-Crisostomo, 45, a citizen of Guatemala, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 13, 2025, Perez-Crisostomo was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported, and removed from the United States on or about January 21, 2010. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Ramiro Galeana-Arzate, 28, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 13, 2025, Galeana-Arzate was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported, and removed from the United States on or about December 4, 2020. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Luis Alberto Torres-Flores, 35, a citizen of El Salvador, was charged with reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 10, 2025, Torres-Flores was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported, and removed from the United States on or about August 29, 2014. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

   

• Angel David Zuniga-Baca, 35, a citizen of Honduras, was charged with possession of a firearm by an illegal alien and reentry after deportation or removal. On or about October 12, 2024, Zuniga-Baca possessed a firearm in Jefferson County, Kentucky, with knowledge that he was illegally and unlawfully in the United States. On or about March 10, 2025, Zuniga-Baca was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed from the United States on or about November 16, 2009, and April 25, 2014. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison.

   

• Zoiber Hernandez-Dominguez, 50, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with possession of a firearm by an illegal alien. On or about December 16, 2024, Hernandez- Dominguez possessed a firearm in Jefferson County, Kentucky, with knowledge that he was illegally and unlawfully in the United States. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

   

• Humberto Avila-Duran, 54, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with possession of a firearm by an illegal alien and reentry after deportation or removal. On or about March 13, 2025, Avila-Duran possessed a firearm in Jefferson County, Kentucky, with knowledge that he was illegally and unlawfully in the United States. On the same day, Avila-Duran was found in the United States after having been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed from the United States on or about January 21, 2011, March 3, 2011, March 8, 2011, August 14, 2012, May 9, 2014, May 13, 2014 and November 13, 2020. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison.

   

• Humberto Avila-Murillo, 28, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with possession of a firearm by an illegal alien. On or about March 13, 2025, Avila-Murillo possessed a firearm in Jefferson County, Kentucky, with knowledge that he was illegally and unlawfully in the United States. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

There is no parole in the federal system.