Illegal Immigrant Sentenced to Time Served in Prison

MOBILE, AL - A Honduran national was sentenced today to time served in prison for illegally reentering the United States after previously having been deported.

According to court documents, Jhostin Nunez-Murcia, 36, was the driver of a vehicle stopped by the Mobile County Sheriff's Office on September 12, 2025, for a traffic violation. Mobile County deputies suspected that Nunez-Murcia was not a United States citizen, so they contacted law enforcement personnel with U.S. Border Patrol. A Border Patrol agent was able to determine that Nunez-Murcia had previously been removed from the United States in 2012.

At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Terry F. Moorer imposed a time-served sentence of incarceration and a one-year term of supervised release upon his release. Upon his release from prison, Nunez-Murcia is to be referred to immigration officials for deportation proceedings. Nunez-Murcia was ordered to pay $100 in special assessments.

U.S. Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama made the announcement.

The Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and the Mobile County Sheriff's Department investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica S. Terrill prosecuted the case on behalf of the United States.

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.