OTTUMWA, IOWA -- Pedro Cruz Perez wasn't going to let being deported disrupt his drug business.

Southeast Iowa Drug Task Force officers arrested Perez, (alias Rafael Victoria-Espinoza and Francisco Rafael Ochoa) in January 2001 and charged him with cocaine trafficking, identity theft, forgery and ongoing criminal activity.

Authorities say Perez was arrested despite having been deported from the country several different times.

Perez won't be leaving the country again for another 10 years.

That's how long he was sentenced to after pleading guilty to the cocaine charge earlier this month.

Press release from Ottumwa Police Department

During the month of January 2011 members of the Southeast Iowa Inter-Agency Drug Task Force conducted a cocaine distribution investigation in Ottumwa. During the investigation two controlled purchases of cocaine were purchased from a subject using the name Pedro Cruz Perez. On February 15, 2011 Cruz Perez was arrested and charged with Delivery of less than 100 grams of cocaine, identity theft, forgery, on-going criminal conduct and unlawful acts. 

Using fingerprint identification the subject was also identified as Rafael Victoria-Espinoza and Francisco Rafael Ochoa. Investigators learned the subject had been deported from the United States on several occasions.

On April 4, 2011 the subject pled guilty to the crime of Delivery of Cocaine, a Class C felony. The subject was then sentenced to the custody of the Division of Adult Corrections, State of Iowa, for a term of no more than 10 years.

Agencies also participating in the investigation were the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Administration.