BOSTON — A Dominican national who was booted out of the country in 2012, snuck back in, and then hid behind a fake name through four separate state drug convictions is heading back to federal prison — nearly a decade after a grand jury first indicted him.

Aymar Ramos was removed to the Dominican Republic on April 5, 2012. He didn't stay away long. Sometime after that removal — without permission, without a visa, without any legal process — he was back on American soil.

Between 2015 and 2024, using an alias to keep his real identity buried, he was convicted in four separate state court drug cases. Not one. Not two. Four. Federal prosecutors had already indicted him for the illegal reentry back in 2018, but that federal case sat while he cycled through state court under a name that wasn't his.

The state finally handed him over. In October 2025, after Aymar Ramos completed a two-and-a-half-year state jail sentence in one of the drug cases, he was transported to federal court to answer for the illegal reentry that had been waiting since 2018. He has been in federal custody ever since.

He pleaded guilty in April 2026 to one count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien. Eighteen months from now, he'll be deported again.