SAN ANTONIO, Texas - A Cuban national living illegally in the United States was sentenced Monday to 17 and a half years in federal prison for operating a multi-state labor trafficking scheme that forced three Cuban women into commercial sex work, federal prosecutors announced.

What we know: Yoirlan Tome-Rojas, 46, was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez in San Antonio.

Tome-Rojas had previously pleaded guilty on June 3 to three counts of labor trafficking, with his sentences set to run concurrently.