MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A man accused of illegally taking his two children from Minnesota to Mexico faces up to three years in prison when sentenced on one count of international parental kidnapping.
U.S. prosecutors said 36-year-old Juan Manuel Garcia-Trujillo, who lived in Brooklyn Center, pleaded guilty Thursday.
According to a plea agreement, he admitted illegally taking his children from the U.S. in May 2008 when they were 2 and 8 years old.
He had been convicted earlier of second-degree sexual assault, and when released from state custody was deported to Mexico for being illegally in the U.S. Authorities said he returned to take the children.
U.S. Immigration and Customers Enforcement returned the children to their mother after Garcia-Trujillo was arrested a year ago in LaBarca, Mexico.
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