WORCESTER, Mass. — A man federal prosecutors said was living illegally in Milford has been sentenced in federal court in Worcester to time served for returning to the United States after he had been deported, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said Friday.

Luis Rolando Clavijo Tacuri, 32, an Ecuadorian national, was sentenced Oct. 20 by U.S. District Judge Margaret R. Guzman to the 85 days he had already spent in custody, prosecutors said. The government had asked for seven months in prison. He now faces deportation proceedings, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

Clavijo Tacuri was charged in August and pleaded guilty in September to one count of illegally reentering the country after deportation.

According to prosecutors, immigration officials first came across him in October 2015, while he was jailed on a charge of driving under the influence in Holliston. It was his third such offense, prosecutors said. He was placed in removal proceedings and deported to Ecuador in December 2016.

At some point after that, he came back into the United States illegally, and authorities found him in Milford on May 27, 2024, prosecutors said. The U.S. attorney's office said he had been arrested several times for driving under the influence in Massachusetts.

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