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Moises Ortiz-Castenada, 28
COLUMBUS, Ind. — A Columbus resident is being charged with illegal re-entry into the United States after an April fight in Ninth Street Park.
The office of the U.S. Attorney's Southern Indiana District announced today that Moises Ortiz-Castenada, 28, faces up to two years in prison, a $250,000 fine and deportation.
The indictment against Ortiz-Castenada alleges that he was deported as an illegal alien from Arizona back to Mexico seven times — on May 16, 2002, June 18, 2002, July 18, 2002, February 28, 2003, April 5, 2004, April 19, 2004, and April 1, 2005.
Ortiz-Castenada was arrested in Columbus on April 14 on charges of domestic battery, battery resulting in injury, invasion of privacy, resisting law enforcement and public intoxication after an argument with a woman over a set of keys escalated, police said..
The 27-year-old woman sustained minor injuries.
Police said Castaneda went to the home of the woman, who had a protective order against him, and they got into an argument over keys.
The two began to scuffle in Ninth Street Park. A witness called police.