5New York , NY – A Dominican Republic national with a history of violent crime and repeated illegal entries into the United States has been sentenced to 100 months in federal prison for re-entering the country after multiple deportations and lying to immigration authorities.

Juan Carlos Padilla Santos, 50, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick after prosecutors detailed a decades-long pattern of serious criminal conduct and immigration violations.

Padilla Santos was first deported in 2010 after serving nearly seven and a half years for conspiring to distribute narcotics. Within a year, he returned illegally and was ordered removed in absentia. In 2016, he was convicted of murder in the Dominican Republic and sentenced to 15 years, but instead of serving that senten

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