A teen from England was sentenced to time served Thursday and will likely be deported after he was caught walking from Quebec into a heavily wooded section of northwestern Maine.
Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah, 18, was not ordered to serve additional sentence but is expected to be removed from the country.
He was charged with illegally entering the U.S. on April 3 after he was found walking with three other men near the heavily wooded area between Quebec and Maine, near Jackman.
Abdullah told immigration officials he had come to Maine hoping to find work.
He entered Maine, officials said, within a few hundred yards of the Saint Zacharie, Maine, port of entry on the Golden Road in Somerset County that was manned by agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Upon exiting the woods, Abdullah and his companions began walking down the Golden Road heading east, according to a U.S. District Court news release.
By that point, a passerby in the area had already reported the presence of the men to border officials, who took the four men into custody without incident.
Abdullah and his three companions said they were citizens of the United Kingdom, according to the release. The four were transported to the Jackman Border Patrol Station on Long Pond Road.
The cases against the other three men are all pending in U.S. District Court. All three — Hameed Mohammed Nagi, Ibrahim Ayyub Khan and Mohammed Sultan Saleh — are charged with entry without inspection.
In addition to the U.S. Border Patrol, the Office of Field Operations and the FBI investigated the case, the release stated.
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