Story highlights Efrain Delgado-Rosales is sentenced to five years in prison

He has been apprehended by Border Control 24 times since 1999

(CNN) Not the first, second or third, but the 24th time proved the charm for U.S. authorities.

Efrain Delgado-Rosales was sentenced last week to five years in prison for smuggling four non-U.S. citizens into the United States.

He was caught by Border Patrol in October, marking the 24th time Delgado-Rosales had been apprehended by the agency since July 1999, according to officials.

The other times he was nabbed, he was not charged.

He was processed and deported to Mexico, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexandra Foster, where Delgado-Rosales is a citizen.

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