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BEAUMONT – A 34-year-old Mexican citizen has been indicted for immigration violations in the Eastern District of Texas, U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown said Thursday.

Oscar Rendon-Gonzalez was named in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Wednesday charging him with unlawful reentry of a deported alien.

According to documents filed in court, Rendon-Gonzalez was stopped for a traffic violation on IH-10 in Beaumont. A records check revealed that Rendon-Gonzalez is alleged to have a criminal conviction for indecent liberty with a child out of North Carolina and had been deported to Mexico in 2009.

If convicted, Rendon-Gonzalez faces up to 20 years in federal prison and deportation.

This case is being investigated by the Department of Homeland Security/Enforcement Removal Operations and the Beaumont Police Department and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Randall L. Fluke.