{Lexington, Kentucky}...According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Lexington, U.S. District Judge Joseph M. Hood sentenced 47 year old José Eligio Pineda-Parada Monday to 71/2 years in prison for illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported felon. Pineda-Parada, originally from El Salvador, was convicted after a one-day trial in May. Evidence showed that in 1991, Pineda-Parada was convicted in Texas of felony assault and subsequently was deported. Since then, Pineda-Parada has re-entered the United States illegally four times. Lexington authorities picked him up in December 2011 for a DUI and related traffic offenses. Court records show Pineda-Parada legally entered the country in 1987. He received a two-year prison sentence for his 1991 assault conviction. A federal judge in Texas sentenced him to three years and 10 months in 2002 for illegally entering the United States a third time. He was deported to El Salvador in 2004. Pineda-Parada will have to serve 85 percent of his sentence.
