A man charged with the rape of a juvenile in Alabaster was deported three years ago after being convicted of drug trafficking and is back again in the U.S. illegally, according to a federal indictment.

Amancio Betancourt Martinez, 27, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Birmingham for illegal re-entry into the country. He is also known as Christofer Martinez.

Federal documents show Martinez, who lives in Helena, became the subject of a federal investigation after Alabaster police contacted the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigrant and Customs Enforcement in November. At that time, Martinez was a suspect in a rape investigation involving a juvenile female and was believed to be a foreign national who had been previously removed the U.S.

Federal investigators, along with Alabaster police and Shelby County sheriff’s deputies, went to an undisclosed job site where Martinez was employed. Once there, Martinez, who is a native and citizen of Mexico, was fingerprinted and positively identified, records show.

Authorities deemed that Martinez had been removed from the U.S. on Dec. 31, 2015 after being convicted in Shelby County in 2014 on cocaine trafficking charges. In that case, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison with three years of probation. He had also been convicted in June 2012 in Jefferson County for giving false information to law enforcement. He was sentenced to six months with 24 months of probation on that conviction.

The fingerprint check, authorities said, also associated Martinez with an FBI number that showed previous immigration arrests. Investigators noted in court records they reviewed Martinez’s file and it revealed there was no documentation that he had applied for, or was given, any permission for admission back into the U.S.

Martinez was arrested by Alabaster police on Dec. 3 and charged with first-degree rape. Details about the incident weren’t immediately available but charging documents state the alleged crime happened on Nov. 26.

Martinez remains in the Shelby County Jail.