A 50-year-old Jamaican man, Jason Caston Williams, also called Jason Fitzgerald and Terry Barrington Stewart, faces as much as 20 years in a United States jail after pleading responsible to illegally re-entering the nation following a previous deportation.
The US Legal professional for the District of Connecticut, Vanessa Roberts Avery, introduced on Thursday that Williams entered the responsible plea a day earlier in entrance of US District Choose Omar A. Williams in Hartford.
In accordance with a press launch from the US Legal professional’s Workplace, Williams was initially admitted to the US as a lawful everlasting resident in October 1982. Nonetheless, his authorized troubles started in June 1991, when he was convicted in Connecticut state courtroom of second-degree theft. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail, with the execution suspended, and 5 years of probation.
Williams later violated his probation, resulting in a sentence of three years in jail in March 1997. His authorized points continued when, in September 1997, he was convicted in New York for second-degree housebreaking and felony possession of a weapon. He was sentenced to 30 months to 5 years in jail for these prices.
“In Could 2001, after an immigration decide ordered him faraway from the US, he was deported to Jamaica,” the US Legal professional’s Workplace acknowledged.
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Regardless of his deportation, Williams unlawfully returned to the US. The precise date of his re-entry was not disclosed. On October 20, 2022, he was arrested by Norwalk police in Connecticut for second-degree assault, involving a knife assault on one other particular person. Williams was convicted on October 11, 2023, and sentenced to 5 years in jail, suspended after two years, with a further three years of probation.
In relation to his most up-to-date responsible plea for unlawful re-entry, the US Legal professional’s Workplace famous that no sentencing date has been set. Nonetheless, “Williams faces a most time period of imprisonment of 20 years for unlawful re-entry.”
Williams stays in custody, and the case was investigated by the US Division of Homeland Safety and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
