Illegal Jose Madrigal, the Washington state rapist, had some 30 identities.
EACH FAKE IDENTITY COLLECTS US GOVT FREEEBIES,
--- AND AS EVERY DESPERATE DEMOCRAT KNOWS ---
EACH FAKE IDENTITY VOTES AND VOTES AND VOTES
May 25, 2010
Nine charged in phony IDs case
San Antonio Express News | Guillermo Contreras
R Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 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. The documents generally sold for $100 each, agents found. An undercover agent bought a fake green card, Social Security card and Texas driver's license during the probe.
McElligott testified that suspect Johnnys Amilca Raudales Moncada admitted to being one of the sellers of the counterfeit documents, though the suspect argued at Monday's hearing that he did not participate. The suspect was one of two men found when agents served a search warrant at an apartment in the 9200 block of North Plaza in Austin. Investigators believe the ring was led in San Antonio by Gregory Hernandez Trolle and in Austin by a man tentatively identified as Carlos Saldaña. Trolle is in custody without bond and waived his preliminary and bail hearing, along with five of the other suspects, leaving Amilca Raudales Moncada as the lone suspect to contest the agents' evidence.
Hernandez, whose apartment in the 10300 block of Sahara in San Antonio was raided May 12, admitted to agents that he manufactured “at least 1,000” counterfeit IDs in the past four months, McElligott testified. Saldaña has not been found since agents initially saw him at one of the target locations during their investigation, according to McElligott. McElligott testified that the ring spent about $15,000 on document-making machines and supplies from Alpha Card, an Oregon company that provides similar equipment for government agencies or private businesses, which use the equipment to make identifications for employees.
At Monday's hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Nowak found probable cause that Amilca Raudales Moncada was involved in the conspiracy to make, possess or transfer fake identification documents. She ordered him detained without bond.Also charged are Miguel “Joel” Vasquez Diaz, Alexander Perez, Leonel Gobos Murillo, Bernardina “Brenda” Rodriguez, Daniel Alberto Chacon Ramon and a suspect not in custody whose name was not released.
The case is likely to be presented to a grand jury in the coming weeks. If convicted, each suspect faces up to five years in prison. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/nine_charged_inphony_ids_case_94800264.html
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June 21, 2006
2 Texans accused of planning to sell counterfeit IDs
NORTH BERGEN, NJ -- (AP) ---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. The invaders peddle drugs for 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.
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 .
If terrorists 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 any individual seeking entry across US borders.
A L/E task force happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in the parking lot of the NJ 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. 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. 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....not 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.