An illegal alien from Mexico, twice convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould.
Pedro Garcia Lopez, 45, was indicted in June 2025 and pled guilty in September 2025 to illegally reentering the United States after he was last deported by immigration authorities in 2008. He was sentenced on Monday, February 2, 2026, to 57 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Sam Lindsay.
Evidence presented at sentencing revealed that Garia Lopez’s criminal history dates back to 2008, when he was convicted of burglary of a habitation. Subsequently, he committed two violent attacks resulting in state convictions for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in 2018 and 2025, for which he received sentences of 3 years’ imprisonment.
U.S. District Judge Lindsay ordered Garcia Lopez’s state and federal sentences to run consecutively.
Homeland Security Investigations conducted the Investigation. Special Assistant United States Attorney Marbel Leonel Munoz prosecuted the case.
Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office — Northern District of Texas — U.S. Department of Justice press release.