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Happy2BMe The Mexican national indicted by a federal grand jury in a multimillion-d ollar scheme to distribute millions of phony identification documents to illegal aliens in the United States is, according to authorities, a lea der of a crime syndicate that specializes in document fraud. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, who sought the ind ictment after a lengthy investigation, said millions of phony documents were sent to illegal aliens in the United States in the past five years, including 3 million that were shipped to the Los Angeles area alone. Th e documents were available on the street for $80 to $300, authorities sa id.
Millions of fake IDs (everything from SS numbers to, Mexican matricula co nsular ID cards, to driver's licenses, to birth certificates, to marriag e licenses, to work authorization documents, to proof of vehicle insuran ce , to vehicle registration documents, - even down to fake utility bill s). Who needs any more proof the United States of America is under a direct i nvasion from an army of illegal aliens?
View Replies To: Happy2BMe I'm not fond of the idea, but we will have to go to biometrics for ID s oon. The tough part will be establishing the real identity of the person in th e first place, otherwise your biometric database is flawed, too.
View Replies To: Happy2BMe News Release July 20, 2005 LEADER OF INTERNATIONAL COUNTERFEIT DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION INDICTED IN DEN VER AFTER MULTI-YEAR INVESTIGATION DENVER - Bill Leone, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Co lorado; Marcy Forman, Director of Investigations for the US Immigratio n and Customs Enforcement (ICE); Danielle Buntin, Acting Special Agent i n Charge of the Social Security Administration's Denver Office of the In spector General; Terry L Stuart, Special Agent In Charge of the IRS-Cri minal Investigation, Denver Field Office; and Kathleen Roberts, Postal I nspector In Charge in Denver, announced that Pedro Castorena-Ibarra (aka Pedro Castorena), age 42, of Guadalajara, Mexico, was indicted Monday, July 11, 2005 by a federal grand jury in Denver, Colorado for his involv ement in masterminding a criminal organization responsible for the illeg al production and distribution of counterfeit identification documents. The Department of Justice considers Castorena-Ibarra a fugitive from just ice hiding in Mexico. The Justice Department will begin to attempt to ex tradite Castorena-Ibarra to the United States to face the criminal charg es. According to the indictment, beginning on or before May 1998, and continu ing through February 2005, Castorena-Ibarra conspired with others to man ufacture and provide support to manufacture and distribute counterfeit a lien registration cards, Social Security cards, and other identification documents, including Republic of Mexico identification documents, such as the Matricula Consular Identification cards, to foreign nationals unl awfully present in the United States, and others, for a fee. He faces ch arges of charges of Fraud and Misuse of Permits and Other Documents, Fra ud and Related Activity in Connection with Identification Documents and Document Making Implements, Social Security Fraud and Conspiracy to Laun der a Monetary Instrument. Acting United States Attorney Bill Leone said, "Large scale document forg ery operations are a menace. They supply a tool to criminals of every pe rsuasion in forms as various as false drivers licenses, false birth cert ificates, false social security cards, false insurance cards and false f oreign identification documents. These tools help the criminal conceal h is identity, gain access to places and benefits to which they should not have access, and can facilitate identity and other forms of theft. They serve as a one-stop shop not only for illegal immigrants, but for drug smugglers, money launderers and potential terrorists. By allowing these organizations to exist we give terrorists and other criminals one more t ool to ply their trade. By aggressively prosecuting these types of organ izations we hope to disrupt the infrastructure that supports this crimin al activity and to deprive all criminals, including those who seek to co nceal themselves within our society and commit acts of terrorism, of the ir tools. In addition, widespread use of false identity documents is a c orrosive influence on our daily lives. It is simply intolerable to have a material segment of our society living a lie on a daily basis. We will continue to seek out and dismantle wherever possible these types of org anizations, their support structure and their illicit business organizat ion." Marcy Forman, Director of Investigations for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): This criminal organization represents one of the la rgest and most sophisticated document fraud rings ever uncovered - so mu ch so that it set up franchises is most major US cities and counterfei ted dozens of types of documents. Fraudulent documents can be provided t o terrorists and other criminals, posing a major homeland security vulne rability. Working with our law enforcement partners, ICE will continue t o identify and shut down these vulnerabilities." BACKGROUND The investigation leading to this indictment began in October 2000 when a gents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with the assistanc e of investigators from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Social S ecurity Administration-Office of Inspector General (SSA OIG) and the US . Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), began investigating the sale and di stribution of counterfeit identity documents in the areas of 30th and Zu ni Street and 8th and Federal Boulevard in Denver, Colorado. Both areas have been the focus of several previous investigations and enforcement o perations regarding counterfeit immigration identification documents. During the course of the investigation Castorena-Ibarra was identified as the leader of a large scale criminal organization involved in manufactu ring and distributing counterfeit identity documents, including resident alien cards, social security cards, Mexico Matricula Consular ID Cards, drivers licenses and identity documents from various states of Mexico and the United States. The investigation revealed that Castorena-Ibarra and other members of his criminal organization have been involved in manufacturing and distribut ing counterfeit identity documents in numerous cities throughout the Uni ted States, including Los Angeles, California, Chicago, Illinois, Atlant a, Georgia, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Lincoln, Nebraska, Des Moines , Iowa, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Denver, Colorado, as well as other locations throughout the United States. Investigators found that previou s investigations conducted in Los Angeles and other cities dating back t o the late 1980s also targeted members of the Castorena-Ibarra family an d organization. Another organization member, identified as Francisco Javier Miranda-Espin osa was also indicted on similar charges by the same federal grand jury on July 11, 2005. Miranda-Espinosa was previously arrested by ICE agents on January 20, 2005, at his residential apartment in Aurora, Colorado, where agents seized several hundred counterfeit identity documents and v arious document making implements, including a silk-screen printing pres s Immediately following the arrest, a search of an Aurora storage unit uncovered 21 silk-screen printing templates and negatives which had been utilized to produce bulk quantities of counterfeit identity document la minates complete with security seals and holograms. Miranda-Espinosa was subsequently indicted in Colorado in February 2005 f or unlawful reentry to the United States after deportation after investi gators learned that he had previously been convicted in 2000 in Los Ange les, California, where he had been involved in the manufacturing and dis tributing of counterfeit identity documents in a Los Angeles cell of Ped ro Castorena-Ibarra's organization. Miranda-Espinosa served approximatel y 36 months for his 2000 counterfeiting related conviction in the US D istrict Court in Los Angeles before he was deported to Mexico....
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