BAY CITY, MI -- For the second time this week, a Mexican citizen has been indicted in federal court in Bay City on charges related to entering the country illegally.

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday, May 10, charged Rafael Munoz-Molina with one count of illegal reentry of a previously removed alien. The charge is punishable by up to two years' incarceration.

According to an affidavit authored by Hector Rivera, a deportation officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), officers with his agency on the morning of Thursday, May 4, visited the Travel Inn Motel at 1000 N. Euclid Ave. in Bay County's Monitor Township to search for Munoz-Molina. The officers spotted him leaving the motel and entering a vehicle, then pulled him over at a nearby 7-Eleven.

Munoz-Molina identified himself to ICE officers and "freely admitted to not having any legal status or documentation to reside or remain in the United States," Rivera wrote. The officers arrested Munoz-Molina and took him to the ICE field office in Detroit.

Munoz-Molina has a lengthy criminal history in Michigan. In 1995, he was convicted in Bay County of malicious destruction of property less than $200. That same year, he was convicted in Saginaw County of second-degree retail fraud. Between the two convictions, he was ordered to pay $665 in fines and restitution.

In July 1997, Munoz-Molina was convicted in Midland County of domestic violence. He was sentenced to 93 days in jail and two years' probation and ordered to pay $325 in fines. In October of that year, he was deported to Mexico.

Seven days later, he was encountered by U.S. Border Patrol personnel near Falfurrias, Texas. He was subsequently convicted of knowingly and unlawfully entering the U.S. and sentenced to 75 days in jail.

Munoz-Molina was again deported in March 1998.

At some point, he again returned to the U.S., only to be convicted of impaired driving in Bay County in June 2002. He received a sentence of six months' probation and a fine of $257.67.

Officers again arrested Munoz-Molina in August 2003 at Begick Nursery & Garden Center in Frankenlust Township. He was thereafter deported to Mexico, the third time this occurred.

Again, Munoz-Molina returned to America, specifically Bay County. He was convicted there in 2005 of impaired driving and sentenced to four days in jail and 15 months' probation, with a $1,125 fine. Come January 2014, he was deported for the fourth time.

Just one month later, officers again encountered Munoz-Molina on the northern side of the U.S.-Mexico border, this time in McAllen, Texas. Convicted of knowingly or unlawfully entering the U.S., he was deported for a fifth time in March 2014.

In July 2015, authorities again arrested Munoz-Molina in Saginaw. Convicted a third time of unlawfully entering the U.S., he was sentenced to six months in jail then deported for the sixth time in February 2016.

Fifteen days after he was deported, Munoz-Molina ran into Border Patrol officers in Why, Arizona. His seventh deportation was executed the next day.

His next encounter with authorities was his May 4 arrest in Bay County.

Munoz-Molina's next court date is pending.

On May 9, 19-year-old undocumented immigrant Josefina Hernandez-Gomez appeared before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Patricia T. Morris. She is facing the same charge as Munoz-Molina, having been arrested after a Michigan State Police trooper on April 29 pulled over a car she was in as it traveled along Interstate 75 in Bay County.

The two males in the car with her were also undocumented immigrants, court records show.