An illegal immigrant who was deported in 2007 after serving time for an attempted-rape conviction in Nebraska returned to the United States earlier this year only to assault two men in Alexandria on separate occasions.
Jolman Antonio Garcia, 30, of Esperanza, Honduras, was placed in federal custody on Nov. 12, two weeks after he was sentenced to nearly two years in prison by an Alexandria judge.
According to a sworn statement by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, Garcia snuck across the U.S.-Mexican border near Douglas, Ariz., in mid-April, a little more than a year after he was deported from Hastings, Neb.
In 2005, Garcia was convicted of attempting to have sex with someone without consent when “he should have known that the victim was physically or mentally incapable of resisting or appraising the nature of his conduct,” Nebraska court documents said.
He served two years for the crime and was deported soon after his release from a Nebraska prison on Jan. 15, 2007.
On April 25, just days after Garcia later told the ICE agent he returned to the United States, Garcia attacked an Hispanic Alexandria man. The original indictment was for a malicious stabbing charge, but he later pleaded guilty to assault and battery.
But before Alexandria police could arrest Garcia for the April 25 crime, he attacked his roommate on May 10, knocking him in the head with a porcelain toilet tank cover, police said in court documents.
Garcia was on the phone with his girlfriend while in the bathroom when his roommate asked him to keep down the noise, police said.
Garcia became angry and punched his roommate. The roommate fought back and Garcia grabbed the toilet tank cover and hit his roommate in the face, police said.
He was arrested that day and has been in custody since, officials said.
An Alexandria jail official said when Garcia was arrested, police found he had a driver’s license that he obtained by lying about his identity. The official did not know which state had issued the license.
In his request for a court-appointed attorney, Garcia wrote that he earned $300 a week, but did not list an employer.
ICE declined to comment, but it’s common practice for detained illegal immigrants to serve their prison time and then be deported.
