A Mexican national has pled guilty to re-entering the United States after being removed as an aggravated felon.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, 32-year-old Jose Juan Rodriguez-Guarda pled guilty to one count of re-entry of a removed alien. According to evidence presented at the guilty plea, Rodriguez-Guarda illegally re-entered the U.S. multiple times since 2009 after being removed.

In June 2012, he was removed as an aggravated felon from the U.S. after being convicted of attempted human smuggling in Arizona.

He was arrested in Virginia in January 2013, two days after he had kidnapped his girlfriend at knife-point in Bossier Parish and took her to Virginia, where he already had their 7-year-old daughter. Rodriguez-Guarda pled guilty to simple kidnapping in Bossier Parish Court in June of 2015.

This time, he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, one to three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine. He'll be sentenced February 19, 2016.

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