ST. THOMAS — Two men deported from the United States earlier this year were arrested two days in a row at Cyril E. King Airport. They now face felony charges in district court.

According to court documents, Customs and Border enforcement officers first tracked down Carlos Adrian Verdugo-Castro on Oct. 27, at the United Airlines flight to St. Louis. He caught it during a preliminary inspection before his flight from St. Thomas to Newark, New Jersey.

After being taken to the secondary screening area, Verdugo reportedly told authorities that he had been deported from the United States on May 30 and sent back to his native Ecuador. She reportedly set out again on 22 September, heading first to Panama and then Sint Maarten.

Verdugo told authorities from Sint Maarten that he would board a boat with other illegal immigrants and head to St. He said he was on his way to John. He says he paid $2,000 to help purchase the boat for the trip.

Official records confirmed Verdugo’s nationality and also confirmed his deportation from the United States. The last stamp in his passport indicated entry into Sint Maarten, and no evidence of his permission to re-enter the United States was found.

The next day, on October 28, a Colombian man named Robert Tulio Ceron-Fajardo was arrested at CEKA while trying to board a Frontier Airlines flight to San Juan. The final destination would be Newark. Ceron was escorted by Customs and Border Protection agents to a secondary inspection area, where he reportedly admitted that he, too, had been deported from the United States. In his case, he was captured in El Paso, Texas, on April 11 and repatriated on April 17.

Ceron, like Verdugo before him, came from Sint Maarten and arrived in St. Petersburg by boat on October 9th. He said entering John. He paid the smuggler $2,700 to help him cross the border. Authorities said his Colombian passport showed him on September 29 in St. He noticed that there was an entry stamp showing that he had arrived in St. Maarten. Also like Verdugo, no evidence was found that Mr. Ceron had obtained re-entry permission after being deported earlier this year. -Enter the country.

Both men are now charged with re-entering the country after being deported, a felony. Verdugo’s detention hearing was held on October 29 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Teague. Judge Teague ordered his release to a third-party guardian in Minnesota after he signed a $5,000 unsecured surety bond. Ceron will appear before the judge on October 31 for a detention hearing.