Posted on 05/25/2010 8:15:49 AM PDT by Racehorse
Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have taken down a ring accused of providing fake identities for hundreds of people in San Antonio and Austin. After six months of investigation, ICE agents charged nine people in the case, and seven have been arrested. The other two, one of whom is one of the ringleaders, remain at large.
At a hearing in federal court Monday in San Antonio for one of the suspects, ICE agent Timothy McElligott testified about a series of raids in San Antonio and Austin that turned up document-making equipment, blank identity cards stock and Social Security cards.
The ring was “distributing and selling drivers' licenses from different states, identity documents and immigration-related documents like Social Security cards and green cards,” said Jerry Robinette, special agent in charge of ICE in San Antonio, whose territory includes Austin and stretches to the Rio Grande Valley.
The fakes also included drivers' licenses from other countries, such as Honduras, McElligott testified.
All the suspects are either Mexican nationals or undocumented immigrants, according to ICE.
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
More information on the wonderful illegals now inside our country thanks to the Demoncrats ...
Take a look at this FBI Wanted for Murder List to see how wonderful diversity is !!!
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/vc/murders/vc_murders.htm
About 90% Hispanic, for those who don’t wish to count (or see all their ugly mugs)
We will next see these 9 people getting an award from 0dumbo
Isn't what ICE is doing in this and other cases "racial profiling"?
Poor Mexicans just wanting a job doing what Americans refuse to do - provide Mexicans and Terrorists with legal documents so they can access our SS benefits too!
Ooops, got confused with the Obama student loan story. Please ignore rant.
Let them go. It’s AZ’s fault.
Engage the “News to Truth Translator” now please....
“All the suspects are criminals, illegally in the United States.”
There, fixed it.
Was Obama one of them? What’s up with him and the multiple social security numbers he’s using, apparently one from the Northeast US (NOT HAWAII)???
Six months of work to bust nine people for fake IDs. Job security or typical government ineptitude?
Was that criminal arrested and charged as well?
Ping!
Maybe this is where NObama got his Social Security number which indicates it was issued in Connecticut—to a person born in 1890.
But, but, but....illegal entry isn’t a crime....these are ALL wonderful assets to our communities!
The one the bottom of the second column is Chevy Chase.
2 Texans accused of planning to sell counterfeit IDs
NORTH BERGEN, NJ -- (AP) 07/21/06---The Pelcastre brothers were a walking threat to national security -- expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, authorities said. (ED. They sell drugs to get the money to buy fake documents.)
When police stumbled across the Pelcastre brothers, the men had turned a Tonnelle Avenue hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local identity broker, authorities said.
The brothers, Angel, 31, and Jorge, 34, both of Dallas, were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of government documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses for any state in the country including passports and resident alien cards .
"Can you imagine if a terrorist were able to get their hands on this stuff? They'd have free passage throughout the country." Note that Mexico is the global staging area for entry across US borders.
A task force including NJ state troopers and officers from both the Bergen and Hudson county prosecutors' offices happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in the parking lot of the hotel. Authorities wouldn't identify the hotel by name for fear it could hinder cooperation from other hotels in future investigations or spark retribution from savage, murderous drug lords.
A Task Force regularly runs checks on motor vehicles in area motels. Members of the task force began watching the cars, a Chevrolet Impala and a Pontiac Firebird, and followed the brothers to an office supply store in a nearby shopping center, where the men purchased computer supplies.
Officers then followed the brothers to a self-storage facility in Secaucus, where they loaded several boxes from a storage unit into one of the cars, Jones said. One of the men stood lookout, which heightened police suspicion, he said. Authorities approached the men when they returned to the hotel and questioned them separately, Jones said. The brothers consented to a search of their cars, hotel room and the storage facility, he said.
Police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs.
All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street. Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a fake document broker for a shipment of 500 Social Security cards.
"They were aggressively selling to brokers," he said. "This isn't like selling driver's licenses to individuals. These were multiple layers of high-level documents."
The brothers were being held in jail without bail on charges of possessing fraudulent documents and conspiracy to sell fraudulent documents. Federal charges are also pending against them.
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