A Guatemalan national who was deported following multiple convictions in Connecticut has been charged with illegally reentering the United States.
Carlos Egberto Jimenez-Tun, also known as Carlos Egberto-Jimenez, 28, a citizen of Guatemala, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Bridgeport on Friday following his release from state custody, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut. He appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Dave Vatti in Bridgeport and was ordered detained.
Court records show that, in April 2019, Jimenez was detained by U.S. Border Patrol in Texas “as part of a criminal alien smuggling investigation.” U.S. Border Patrol determined that Jimenez was in the U.S. illegally and, in July 2019, he was deported to Guatemala, according to court records. He was detained again in September 2019 and deported to Guatemala in November 2019.
Jimenez illegally returned to the U.S. and, between November 2023 and October 2025, he was “arrested, convicted, and sentenced multiple times in Connecticut Superior Court for larceny, failure to appear in court, interfering and resisting arrest, and violating probation,” court records show.
After his arrest on Friday, Jimenez appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Dave Vatti in Bridgeport and was ordered detained. If convicted of illegally reentering the U.S., he faces a maximum term of two years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.