NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Honduran man who prosecutors say had been removed from the United States twice pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in New Haven to illegally reentering the country, the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Connecticut said.

Rudy Antonys Barrientos-Avila, 38, waived his right to be indicted and entered the plea before U.S. District Judge Sarah F. Russell, prosecutors said.

According to prosecutors, U.S. Border Patrol agents in Hidalgo, Texas, arrested Barrientos-Avila on Dec. 27, 2012, and charged him with illegal entry. He pleaded guilty in federal court in Texas, was sentenced to time served and was removed to Honduras on Feb. 13, 2013, prosecutors said.

Border Patrol agents in Hidalgo encountered him again on Dec. 24, 2018, after he had reentered the country illegally, and he was deported to Honduras on Jan. 4, 2019, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

Prosecutors said he later returned to the United States again. Stamford police arrested him on March 20, 2025, on charges of drug possession and breach of peace, and again on Sept. 25, 2025, on charges including attempted assault, possession of narcotics with intent to sell, criminal trespass, breach of peace and interfering with an officer. Those cases remain pending in Stamford Superior Court. The state charges are allegations, and Barrientos-Avila is presumed innocent of them unless proven guilty.

He was arrested on the federal case on Sept. 29 and has been held since, prosecutors said. He faces up to two years in prison. A sentencing date has not been set.

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