LeFlore County man sentenced 

LeFlore County man sentenced as the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Mariano Gabriel-Gabriel, a/k/a Mariana Gabriel, a/k/a Gabriel Mariano, 28, a Mexican national unlawfully present/residing in LeFlore County was sentenced to time served for one count of Unlawful Reentry of Removed Alien.   

The charge arose from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division and the LeFlore County Sheriff’s Office.

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On Aug. 11, 2025, Gabriel-Gabriel pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on June 30, 2025, Gabriel-Gabriel, an alien, was found in the United States without obtaining the express consent of the Secretary of Homeland Security to reapply for admission to the United States after having been previously removed on May 11, 2017. 

This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN).

Ronald A. White, Chief U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Cornell represented the United States at the hearing.

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