Gorgonio Yanez-Magallanes is our Minnesota Man of the Day for December 18. Yanez is scheduled to appear in federal court in downtown St. Paul this afternoon to enter a guilty plea. He requires the use of a taxpayer-paid Spanish-language interpreter at all of his court appearances.
He will plead guilty to one felony count of illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien. Yanez has recorded five (5) previous deportations.
He has been in custody in the federal lockup at the Sherburne County jail since late October. It appears that he had been picked up in Washington County earlier that month.
Court documents tip that Yanez will be sentenced to time served and deported for the sixth time. As the timeline would suggest, Yanez was a participant in the federal Fast Track program.
An update on a previous Minnesota Man of the Day honoree, Carlos Guillermo Aragon-Baez. He took the daily prize back on November 10.
Yesterday, also in St. Paul, he pled guilty and was convicted for a second time of illegal reentry and will now be deported back to Mexico for the third time. Aragon’s most recent arrest was in California, and he was extradited back to Minnesota to face drug-related charges in Mower County.
Reportedly, he will return to his native Nogales, reuniting with his wife and two sons and resume employment in the local mining industry.
¡Adiós, amigos!
