Posted on 02/11/2011 7:07:02 AM PST by La Lydia
BOSTON — A federal judge in Boston has sentenced a Dominican doctor to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to surgically alter fingerprints of an illegal immigrant for $4,500. Jose Elias Zaiter-Pou pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of conspiring to conceal illegal aliens from detection by law enforcement authorities.
Prosecutors say the physician brought surgical equipment, antibiotics and pain medication to a hotel in Woburn and agreed to alter the fingerprints of a government informant for $4,500. They say they have video and audio evidence showing Zaiter-Pou describing to the informant how he would surgically remove a portion of the fingertip...to make a new unrecognizable fingerprint.
U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock ordered the 62-year-old Zaiter-Pou be deported to the Dominican Republic at the end of his prison sentence.
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Is there actually a law that says you can’t alter fingerprints?
The actual charge was “conspiring to conceal illegal aliens from detection by law enforcement authorities.” That has long been against the law.
Where’s the caulk?
Deported! haha!
Many years ago gangsters tried to change or modify their finger prints. All but one failed.
Of that one, the first time he was caught and found to have no fingerprints, it went on his record. any time a crime was commited and fingerprints were found the cops knew it was not him. In other words, his lack of fingerprints were no help in keeping him from being identified by fingerprints.
Between Jimmy Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and Dan Duryea, they must have been Zaiter-Poued a thousand times! As if that would fool Pat O'Brien of the FBI. The fools!
They call him "Magic Fingers" Zaiter-Pou. His 114 mph fast ball does some very weird things. His Dad's prints are all over this.
I wonder if that old Hawaii Five-O episode is true, the one about the guy whose fingerprints were corrputed because he worked in the big pineapple cannery. That had them stumped for quite a while.
There’s a little pocket money for you, fifty bucks per one-hour “office treatment” over the course of a couple of weeks.
I seem to remember a CSI Miami episode where a guy cut the tips of his fingers off into little pieces and sewed them back on patch-work quilt style. The CSI people nailed him by some sort of computer magic that isolated the pieces and put them back together in the right order.
My husband lost the tips of two fingers in an accident. While exercising with therapy putty, we could see that the remaining portion of his fingers still had prints, even after surgery and healing. To the untrained eye, they looked exactly like intact fingerprints. He has no noticeable scars, just two shortened fingers.
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