Man Pleads Guilty to Reentering Country Illegally, Trafficking Heroin

Man Pleads Guilty to Reentering Country Illegally, Trafficking Heroin

A Guatemalan national previously removed from the United States admitted in federal court in Providence on Wednesday that he reentered the country illegally, and while in the country illegally, he sold an individual nearly a kilogram of heroin.

Eduardo Alvarez-Gamez of Providence was removed from the U.S. in June of 2004.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on December 20, 2019.

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The Arrest

Alvarez-Gamez, 42, was arrested by members of the Rhode Island Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Task Force on February 26, 2019, moments after, for the second time in four hours, he sold an individual significant quantity of heroin.

According to information presented to the Court, both transactions occurred while Alvarez-Gomez was under surveillance by members of the DEA drug task force that were investigating his drug trafficking activities.

He was arrested after making the second delivery while inside a vehicle in the vicinity of his Providence residence.