188 New Immigration Cases Added in Western District of Texas This Week

SAN ANTONIO - Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas filed 188 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases from July 17 through July 23, announced U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons.

Charges were brought against human smugglers and illegal aliens with past convictions for numerous DWIs, violent crimes and sexual abuse, thefts, and multiple prior removals.

Among the new cases, Alejandro Flores-Martinez, an illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents near Eagle Pass after he had previously been deported in September 2025. Flores-Martinez was convicted in 2024 of first-degree sexual abuse in Butler County, Missouri, for which he was sentenced to seven years of confinement. He now faces a federal charge for illegal re-entry.

Jose Luis Gutierrez-Laguna, also an illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol near Comstock. He was last deported for the sixth time in May 2025. Gutierrez-Laguna was convicted of his second illegal re-entry charge in 2024. He has also been convicted of operating while intoxicated and forgery.

In El Paso, illegal alien from Mexico Juan Manuel Tinoco-Oros was arrested near Sierra Blanca, approximately 10 miles east of the Fort Hancock Port of Entry. Tinoco-Oros had been previously convicted of domestic violence and was deported for the third time in November 2025.

Raul Medina Gonzalez, an illegal alien from Mexico, was charged in Austin this week. He has been deported from the U.S. eight times and convicted five times for improper entry, the most recent being in 2018. He now faces an illegal re-entry charge.

Enrique Alberto Oxlaj-Lopez has been previously removed from the U.S. six times. He is an illegal alien from Guatemala with a prior conviction for illegal re-entry along with convictions for arson, theft and a DWI.

Also in Austin, Luis Jaimes-De Paz, an illegal alien from Mexico, faces an illegal re-entry charge. His previous illegal re-entry conviction was in 2010. Jaimes-De Paz has also been convicted of three DWI charges and one failure to ID. He's been removed from the U.S. three times.

Illegal alien from Honduras Gabriel Euceda-Bonilla was arrested in San Antonio by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations on Tuesday. Euceda-Bonilla has previously been convicted of three DUI charges as well as intoxication assault causing brain injury. He is now charged with illegal re-entry.

Illegal alien from Mexico Sergio Arturo Delgadillo-Ledesma is also charged with illegal re-entry. San Antonio Police arrested Delgadillo-Ledesma for possession of a controlled substance in March. He was turned over to ICE custody on July 16, the day after his conviction and sentencing. The July conviction was Delgadillo-Ledesma's second for possession of a controlled substance. He's also been previously convicted of a DUI and twice for evading arrest.

These cases were referred or supported by federal law enforcement partners, including ICE, U.S. Border Patrol, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), with additional assistance from state and local law enforcement partners.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas comprises 68 counties located in the central and western areas of Texas, encompasses nearly 93,000 square miles and an estimated population of 7.6 million people. The district includes three of the five largest cities in Texas-San Antonio, Austin and El Paso-and shares 660 miles of common border with the Republic of Mexico.

These cases are 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.

Indictments and criminal complaints are merely allegations and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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