Guatemalan man sentenced to 14 months for illegal reentry to the U.S.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KQTV) -- A Guatemalan man residing in St. Joseph, Missouri, was sentenced in federal court for reentering the United States after being deported.

Byron Perez-Roblero, 39, was sentenced by U.S. Distyrict Judge Roseann Ketchmark to 14 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release for reentering the United States after deportation.

Perez-Roblero was arrested Sept. 18, 2025, in St. Joseph by investigators and officers with Homeland Security Investigations, the United States Marshals Service, the Missouri State Highway Patrol and Buchanan County Sheriff's Department, who were serving a federal warrant for another subject.

Perez-Roblero had been deported from the United States five times- in 2009, 2011, 2020 and 2021.

He had a felony conviction for illegal reentry in United States District Court in Tucson, Arizona.