Jorge Elpidio Erazo-Jimenez, 35, a Honduran citizen living illegally in Lewisburg, was sentenced on Wednesday, May 6, to time served for reentry of a removed alien. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has an immigration detainer on Erazo-Jimenez for his transfer to ICE administrative custody for removal proceedings.
According to court documents and statements made in court, on June 30, 2025, law enforcement officers filed an ICE detainer for Erazo-Jimenez following his incarceration at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver on state-level criminal charges. Erazo-Jimenez later pleaded guilty to domestic battery in Greenbrier County Circuit Court.
ICE agents confirmed that Erazo-Jimenez is a citizen of Honduras in the United States illegally and that he had previously been deported from the United States twice, on Dec. 19, 2011, after he was found near Sarita, TX, and on Dec. 9, 2016, after he was found near Roma, TX.
Erazo-Jimenez had no identification documents permitting him legal status in the United States. Erazo-Jimenez never obtained the express consent of the Secretary of U.S. Homeland Security to reapply for admission to the United States for either of the prior removals, nor did he seek to reenter the United States through other legal means.
Erazo-Jimenez has a criminal history that also includes prior convictions for possession of methamphetamine and obstructing an officer with threats of harm.
United States Attorney Moore Capito made the announcement and commended the investigative work of U.S. Department of Homeland Security-Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Enforcement and Removal Operations (ICE-ERO).
Chief United States District Judge Frank W. Volk imposed the sentence. Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan T. Storage prosecuted the case, as part of a special unit within the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia focused on the immigration enforcement objectives of Operation Take Back America.
Operation Take Back America is 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.
