A deported counterfeiter is behind bars in the Rio Grande Valley after learned he had been living in Harlingen.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested Santiago Lazo-Gonzales on Wednesday.
The 49-year-old Cuban national came in from Mexico at Brownsville’s Gateway International Bridge.
Customs officers learned that he had been previously deported from the United States for counterfeiting in Miami.
Lazo-Gonzales now faces a charge for violating the terms of his release from federal prison.
The Cuban man appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Morgan in Brownsville on Thursday morning.
Investigators told Action 4 News that Lazo-Gonzales had been living in Harlingen.
Judge Morgan denied bond for Lazo-Gonzales pending his extradition to Miami.
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