A Hispanic convicted in 2010 of sex-trafficking a teenage girl faces deportation to Mexico after he completes a federal prison sentence, federal officials have said

Manuel Enrique Zelaya-Rodriguez, 32, has been sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison. Zelaya-Rodriguez, also known as Mecianico, faced a prison sentence of 2-20 years. U.S. District Judge C. Lynwood Smith Jr. ordered that Zelaya-Rodriquez, who is an illegal immigrant, be subject to deportation after completing the prison sentence. Zelaya-Rodriquez was arrested by police in September 2009. Police said that a 15-year-old girl was in Zelaya-Rodriguez’s car at the time of his arrest during a traffic stop. She told police at the time that she had worked for him as a prostitute since August 2009. Police contacted FBI agents after learning that the teen was transported to Alabama from Mexico to work as a prostitute. Zelaya-Rodriguez was convicted in September 2010 of trafficking the underage girl for sex, coercing a minor to engage in prostitution, harboring an illegal alien and failing to file a report with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about an illegal alien in his employment.