Pedro Andony Alvarado Aguilar – Drug Trafficking Indicted for Illegal Reentry

Guatemalan National Previously Convicted for Drug Trafficking Indicted for Illegal Reentry

PROVIDENCE – A Guatemalan national deported in 2015 after having been convicted for drug trafficking has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Rhode Island on a charge of illegal re-entry, announced Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.

According to court records, Pedro Andony Alvarado Aguilar, 49, was convicted in federal court in Connecticut in November 2014 on charges of conspiracy to import 5,000 grams or more of cocaine and conspiracy to import 1,000 grams or more of heroin. He was deported on July 1, 2015.

Court documents allege that Aguilar illegally re-entered the United States and was present in Rhode Island.

Aguilar is scheduled to be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Providence on May 12, 2025. A federal indictment is merely an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Peter I. Roklan.

The matter was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations Immigration and Custom Enforcement.

This case is part of Operation Take Back America (https://www.justice.gov/dag/media/1393746/dl?inline) 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. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN).