Santos Mardoqueo Vasquez-Ortiz, 41, a resident of Harvard and a Guatemalan national, (inset) was sentenced earlier this week to federal prison after being deported and then caught in the United States where he committed a sex offense in Harvard. | Background Photo: Google Street View; Inset: Provided

A Guatemalan national has been sentenced to federal prison after prosecutors say he was deported and then illegally re-entered the United States where he sexually assaulted a woman in Harvard.

Santos Mardoqueo Vasquez-Ortiz, 41, pleaded guilty to reentry of deported aliens in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Prosecutors said Vasquez-Ortiz is a Guatemalan citizen who was deported from the United States in March 2008 through Texas.

He re-entered the United States without obtaining permission and came into contact with law enforcement in January 2021 in McHenry County, prosecutors said.

Vasquez-Ortiz, who was living in Harvard, was charged at that time with three counts of criminal sexual assault, three counts of sexual relations within families and two counts of domestic battery.

A criminal complaint filed in McHenry County Circuit Court said that Vasquez-Ortiz sexually assaulted a victim on January 1, 2021.

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The complaint, filed by a Harvard Police Department detective, said that Vasquez-Ortiz committed several acts of sexual penetration on the woman.

Vasquez-Ortiz threw the victim to the ground and injured her leg and wrist during the assault, the complaint said. The victim is a family member of the suspect.

Vasquez-Ortiz later entered into a negotiated plea deal with the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office.

He pleaded guilty in June 2022 to one count of criminal sexual assault, a Class 1 felony, in exchange for the rest of his charges being dismissed.

Then-McHenry County Judge Robert Wilbrandt approved the deal and sentenced Vasquez-Ortiz to five years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Vasquez-Ortiz was charged in federal court with the reentry of deported aliens charge in April 2025.

State records show he was released from Taylorville Correctional Center on April 9, 2025 — one day before he was federally charged.

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Vasquez-Ortiz pleaded guilty to the federal charge in July and U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston sentenced him on Monday to 24 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which is the maximum sentence.