NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Jamaican citizen living in New Haven has been federally charged with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.

Thirty-seven-year-old Dwayne Claud Singh faces the federal complaint, according to a release Wednesday by the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Singh was reportedly arrested on Wednesday and appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in New Haven federal court. He was ordered detained pending a hearing scheduled for next Monday.

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Court documents and statements alleged that in 2014, Singh was convicted in Connecticut Superior Court of drug, weapon and forgery offenses. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

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