2:22-cr-00228-1 USA v. BETANCOURT

Betancourt has been convicted — by plea or verdict — in federal criminal case 2:22-cr-00228-1, and the case is now at sentencing. The court has not yet scheduled the sentencing hearing on the public docket, but the parties are already filing.

On April 20, 2026, a sentencing memorandum was filed in USA v. Rambang, Case No. 2:22-cr-00215-1, a related proceeding.

The same date produced an undescribed 'other' filing in Betancourt's own docket. The parallel timing suggests coordinated sentencing activity across what appears to be a multi-defendant indictment — Betancourt carries the '-1' designation, marking him as the lead defendant.

Sentencing memoranda are where the real argument happens at this stage. The government uses them to press for a guidelines sentence or above, citing aggravating facts. Defense uses them to argue for a lower range — acceptance of responsibility, cooperation, personal history, or a challenge to how probation calculated the offense level.

Neither memo has been described in detail on the public docket, so the specific guidelines range and the parties' positions are not yet confirmed.

The underlying offense is not clear from the record. The multi-defendant structure and the case's filing in 2022 suggest a conspiracy charge of some kind, but that is not confirmed. What is confirmed: conviction is done, and the only question left is how long Betancourt serves.

Judge assignment is listed as pending. That is unusual at the sentencing phase and may reflect a clerical gap in the public docket rather than an actual vacancy on the case. The court is not identified in the available record, though the 2:22 docket prefix points to a federal district court's criminal division.