PROVIDENCE — A previously deported convicted drug dealer was sentenced yesterday to more than three years in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States.

Domingo Enrique Lorenzo-Ferrera got 41 months in prison from U.S. District Judge Mary M. Lisi, who rejected Lorenzo-Ferrera’s assertion that he was a shoe salesman. Lisi “took note” of evidence collected by federal agents that Lorenzo-Ferrera, 40, is a drug dealer, according to a news release issued by U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente’s office.

Prosecutor Peter F. Neronha, in a sentencing memorandum, disputed Lorenzo-Ferrera’s claim that he earned $100 a week selling shoes by providing evidence agents seized in August from an apartment Lorenzo-Ferrera used on Linwood Avenue in Providence.

Agents found in the apartment $1,030 in cash, a trace amount of cocaine, marijuana, a digital scale, a sifter, a box of sandwich bags, a heat sealer and two empty bottles of a material that traffickers use to cut the strength of cocaine, “all suggesting that Lorenzo-Ferrera was in the drug-trafficking trade,” according to the prosecution.

Lorenzo-Ferrera, a Dominican Republic citizen, was convicted in Washington, D.C., in 1987 of cocaine trafficking and sentenced to prison. He was deported in 1995.

State police detectives assigned to a drug-trafficking task force and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Lorenzo-Ferrera on a charge of illegal reentry after using a search warrant at the Linwood Avenue apartment on Aug. 6.

Lorenzo-Ferrera pleaded guilty to the charge in February, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

After his prison sentence, Lorenzo-Ferrera will again be subject to deportation.

mmckinne@projo.com