Jasmine Stole

jstole@guampdn.com

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced 43-year-old Kisano Opisbo to time served in prison and said he will likely be deported again for unlawfully returning to U.S. soil.

Opisbo was deported in 2000, after he served time in Guam's prison for burglary and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, according to Rosetta San Nicolas, assistant U.S. Attorney.

Opisbo is from Pohnpei, in the Federated States of Micronesia. After his removal from Guam, he later got a passport under the name Enrickson Fredrick and was able to travel from Pohnpei to Hawaii and then to South Carolina, San Nicolas said.

Opisbo was living and working in South Carolina from 2007 to 2016 and sending money to his two children, according to his lawyer, Leilani Lujan, assistant federal public defender.

Opisbo decided in 2016 to move permanently to Pohnpei.

It was when he was transiting through Guam to Pohnpei last year that he was apprehended by federal authorities, Lujan said.

Despite a different name on his passport, authorities found Enrickson Fredrick's fingerprints and tattoos matched that of Kisano Opisbo, who had been deported in 2000, according to San Nicolas.

After apprehending him, federal authorities charged Opisbo in December 2016 with illegal re-entry of a removed alien. He pleaded guilty in January. He’s been detained at Department of Corrections for the past five months.

Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood on Thursday told Opisbo more than once that he could not return to the U.S. Opisbo, dressed in a faded navy blue prison t-shirt and blue jeans, said he understood that.

Before the judge sentenced him, Opisbo apologized to the court. He said he knew what he did was wrong but he needed money to provide for his family. “Please forgive me your honor,” he said.

Opisbo in 1999 reportedly broke into to a Yigo woman’s bedroom, exposed himself and took her jewelry, Pacific Daily News files state. He signed a plea deal in the case and sentenced to imprisonment. He was then deported, according to San Nicolas.

Lujan told the judge that Opisbo also goes by Enrickson Fredrick and that it's common for citizens from the FSM to go by different names.

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