Two brothers convicted of hiring 10 or more undocumented aliens at Westbrook’s Fajita Grill restaurant within a 12-month period were sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court.

According to a press release issued by U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II, Guillermo Fuentes of Westbrook will serve 37 months in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release, while Hector Fuentes of Waterville was sentenced to 30 months in prison, with one year of supervised release.

Both were ordered to forfeit $48,000 that was seized in connection with the investigation, according to the press release.

The Fuentes brothers pleaded guilty in June to hiring the employees and also providing false statements following their arrest. The brothers were originally convicted in 2013, but were awarded a retrial shortly after it was found that a juror referred to the brothers with a racial slur.

According to the release, court records revealed that the charges relate to the hiring of undocumented workers at Fajita Grill, but also to “post-arrest statements the defendants made to law enforcement officers in September 2011 in which they falsely stated, among other things, that federally required documentation regarding the immigration status of employees had been properly completed.”

Guillermo Fuentes, 38, and Hector Fuentes, 40, also own the Cancun Mexican Restaurant in Waterville and owned the former Cancun Mexican Restaurant II in Biddeford. The Westbrook restaurant, at 857 Main St., remains open.

According to City Clerk Lynda Adams, as of last month, Luis Sanchez, who was one of the corporate owners of Fajita Grill with the Fuentes brothers, has now taken it over as the full proprietor.