Jose Paxtor-Oxlaj, 45, a Guatemalan national, pleaded guilty to illegal reentry after deportation following a November 2023 vehicle crash near Elk City, Oklahoma, in which all six of his passengers — including five children — were killed. Paxtor-Oxlaj had been ordered removed and deported to Guatemala in 2010, and investigators determined he re-entered the United States in 2011 without authorization. U.S. District Judge Patrick R. Wyrick sentenced him to 24 months in federal prison to run consecutively to a four-year state prison sentence he received after being convicted on six counts of first-degree manslaughter in Beckham County District Court.

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