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March 4, 2010

Man sentenced for helping
illegal immigrants get jobs

The Associated Press

BANGOR — A federal judge has sentenced a 48-year-old man to two years and nine months in prison for finding work for illegal immigrants at a sea cucumber processing plant and his wife's restaurant in eastern Maine.

Juan Centeno Perez pleaded guilty in November to charges of visa fraud, transporting and harboring illegal immigrants and conspiracy to hire illegal immigrants at the processing plant in Lubec and the restaurant in Hancock.

He was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor.

The Bangor Daily News says Centeno Perez came to the U.S. illegally in the late 1980s and is expected to be deported to his native Mexico after completing his prison sentence.

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