Two illegal aliens who apparently wound up in Jefferson County by mistake in February were sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court, Syracuse, to time served and now face deportation for illegally re-entering the country.

Brothers Joel Pucheta-Cagal, 30, and Francisco Pucheta-Cagal, 28, both citizens of Mexico, were sentenced to 93 days' time served in federal custody and must undergo an additional year of supervision in the event they are not deported.

According to court documents, the two were discovered by a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy Feb. 7 at an unspecified location after a vehicle in which they were traveling broke down. U.S. Border Patrol agents arrived at the scene shortly after and found out the men were in the country illegally.

The men had entered the United States in January in Arizona, where they met a man who transported them and a third person from Arizona to New York. The third man, who had obtained a job in Kingston, N.Y., was dropped off there and the driver was going to proceed to take the brothers from Kingston to Michigan.

However, he got lost, according to court documents, and the vehicle in which the three were traveling broke down in Jefferson County.

The brothers had first been deported from the country in 2007, but allegedly were dropped off at the Mexican border with no money and no way to get back home. According to documents, it would have taken them 24 hours to reach their home in Veracruz by bus, for which they had no money, or more than two months to walk home. Instead, they returned to the United States.

Both men acknowledged they had lived and worked for two years in Tennessee, where both had minor run-ins with the law. Francisco Pucheta-Cagal had been charged with criminal trespass and evading arrest after being approached by a police officer while using a public pay phone and then walking away from the officer. Joel Pucheta-Cagal was charged with driving without a license and, after completing four hours of community service, the traffic charge was dismissed.