A Honduran national, Josue Osmin Montoya Acosta, has been sentenced in the U.S. District Court in Portland for illegally entering the United States after a prior removal. Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., sentenced Montoya Acosta to time served, which amounted to approximately 93 days. Montoya Acosta had pleaded guilty on April 3, 2025.
Court records indicate that on February 25, 2025, an officer from the Brunswick Police Department observed Montoya Acosta driving a vehicle without a front license plate and with an unlit rear license plate. The rear plate was identified as a temporary Indiana plate. Upon request for his driver’s license, Montoya Acosta presented a Honduran passport and admitted he did not possess a driver’s license or visa. Immigration records revealed that he had been removed from the U.S. on two previous occasions.
The case was investigated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection with support from the Brunswick Police Department.
This sentencing is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative aimed at combating illegal immigration and dismantling cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). The operation utilizes resources from the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) and Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) to protect communities from violent crime perpetrators.
