Drunk-driving Guatemalan child sex abuser busted for hit/run DUI in San Leandro after deportation return

February 26, 2026

A Guatemalan with an appalling record of child sex abuse and drunk driving in Alameda County pleaded guilty to an immigration offense this morning at Oakland federal courthouse, where he was handed a two-month ‘time served’ prison term and told he faces immediate deportation.

Luis Vicente Hernandez came to authorities’ attention again last month when he was arrested in San Leandro and charged with multiple DUI offenses and hit-and-run driving.

The court was told Vicente Hernandez had returned to the U.S. after being deported in 2021. That followed a conviction for committing lewd acts upon a child, which saw a charge of aggravated sexual assault with kidnapping dropped as part of a plea deal, and him receive a three year prison sentence.

He was free to commit that offense having been earlier released by an Alameda judge in a DUI case stemming from a December 2018 reckless driving incident, which followed earlier convictions for DUI and hit-and-run driving in March 2017, and two other DUI convictions in 2016.

Alamada County is a ‘sanctuary jurisdiction’ and refuses to cooperate with immigration and customs enforcement officials.

Vicente Hernandez, 38, first entered the U.S. illegally in 2014, the court was told.

“The court accepts the parties’ proposal of time served,” said U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers this morning of the disposition recommended by assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Kane and defense attorney Angela Hansen.

The charitable disposition raises doubts as to how closely the prosecution approach aligns with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s insistence that her staff use “all available criminal statutes to combat the flood of illegal immigration that took place over the last four years.”

Investigators earlier said he faced a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.