Jonathan Chavez-Galarza, a 27-year-old suspected illegal alien, was charged in Minnesota’s federal district court with one count of illegally reentering the United States after being convicted of an aggravated felony. Chavez-Galarz was indicted on Aug. 13.
According to the federal indictment, Chavez-Galarza was found to be illegally present in the United States earlier this year. A Mexican national, Chavez-Galarza was reportedly discovered in Minnesota. The suspected illegal alien’s federal indictment also says he had previously been removed from the United States in July of 2020 and again in Dec. of 2022.
In 2018, Chavez-Galarza was convicted of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon in Hennepin County.
According to the criminal complaint that was filed in Chavez-Galarza’s 2018 felony conviction, police responded to a call and found a man who had been stabbed multiple times. The victim said he was attacked by Chavez-Galarza.
Chavez-Galarza was charged with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and eventually pled guilty to the crime. In a court transcript, Chavez-Galarza admitted that he was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the offense and did not remember it.
At sentencing, Chavez-Galarza was sentenced to three years in Minnesota’s state correctional facility in St. Cloud; he received 148 days of credit for time served. At the time, Minnesota law required at least two-thirds of a convict’s prison sentence to be served in a correctional facility. The remaining third could be served on supervised probation.
However, a press release from the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office says that court documents indicate Chavez-Galarza was “deported following [his] Second-Degree Assault with a Dangerous Weapon conviction in Hennepin County on December 5, 2018.”
The U.S. attorney’s office also noted that its federal case against Chavez-Galarza “is the result of an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the United States Marshals Service.”
Luke Sprinkel
Luke Sprinkel previously worked as a Legislative Assistant at the Minnesota House of Representatives. He grew up as a Missionary Kid (MK) living in England, Thailand, Tanzania, and the Middle East. Luke graduated from Regent University in 2018.
