MCALLEN, Texas — A man from Mexico, who admitted to taking hostages, was sentenced on Wednesday to 11 years and eight months in federal prison for his role in a May 2010 hostage-taking case, announced U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno, Southern District of Texas. The investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) with the assistance of Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office. Hugo Oscar Rodriguez-Montoya, 37, of Tamaulipas, Mexico, was sentenced July 13 to 140 months by U.S. District Judge Randy Crane. He was also been ordered to serve a three-year period of supervised release. Rodriguez-Montoya entered a guilty plea in December 2010. According to court documents, on May 10, 2010, ICE HSI special agents were notified that Leon-Villa, of Guanajuato, Mexico, had shot himself during a botched alien-smuggling attempt. At that time, agents interviewed a smuggled alien who had escaped from Leon-Villa and the others. The...