WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

Fort Myers, Florida - Jose Toribio Canales (44, El Salvador) has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell to eight years and four months in federal prison for illegal reentry after deportation.Toribio Canales pleaded guilty on July 2, 2026. U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe made the announcement.

According to court documents, Toribio Canales is a citizen of El Salvador. He was convicted in 2006 of lewd or lascivious battery of a person 12 years of age or older, but less than 16 years of age, in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in Broward County, Florida. He was also convicted in 2...