BANGOR – A Mexican man working for a Brewer-based insulation firm has been detained in the Penobscot County Jail on immigration violations.

Abel Gonzalez-Perez, 19, of Chiapas, Mexico, was arrested Wednesday in Carrabassett while working at a condominium development at Sugarloaf USA. He was employed by Builder’s Insulation Co. of Maine of Brewer.

Gonzalez-Perez is charged with illegal re-entry after deportation. If convicted, he faces up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

A trial date has not been set.

Gonzalez-Perez was deported in August 2004 from Buffalo, N.Y., and barred from re-entering the United States.

He told U.S. Border Patrol agents on Wednesday that he had paid a smuggler $1,000 to help him cross the border illegally near Nogales, Ariz., according to court documents. He also told officials he paid $60 for a fake resident alien card and a Social Security card.

Court documents do not explain why agents suspected undocumented workers might be working at the work site at the western Maine ski resort.