Carlos Arturo Cahuex-Martinez, a 45-year-old Guatemalan national, has been sentenced to eight months in prison for unlawful reentry into the United States. The sentencing was announced by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
Cahuex-Martinez pleaded guilty on September 16, 2025, to one count of unlawful reentry after removal. According to investigators from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division, he was found in Wagoner, Oklahoma, on July 22, 2025. Authorities stated that Cahuex-Martinez had not obtained permission from the Secretary of Homeland Security to return to the country following previous removals on July 3, 2018; November 13, 2018; and January 26, 2022.
“This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime,” according to information provided by federal authorities.
The sentencing hearing was presided over by Judge John C. Coughenour of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, serving by designation. Cahuex-Martinez will remain in custody with the U.S. Marshals Service until he is transported to a Bureau of Prisons facility to serve his sentence.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Cornell represented the government in this case.
