C.B.P. News Release

CBP Arrests Imposter Posing as U.S. Citizen at El Paso Port of Entry

(Friday, August 05, 2011)

El Paso, Texas - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at area ports of entry have made several recent immigration violation arrests.

On August 4, a 37-year-old male applied for admission into the U.S. at the Paso Del Norte port of entry pedestrian crossing by presenting a U.S. passport. The individual also presented an Illinois driver license and identification card to substantiate his claim. The primary CBP officer suspected that this subject was an impostor and had made a documented false claim to U.S. citizenship and referred the subject to Passport Control Secondary for further inspection.

In PCS secondary, CBP officers discovered that the individual had been deported in 2007. The subject also admitted that the document he presented to CBP was not his but had in fact been purchased from an unknown vendor in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico for $500.

CBP officers arrested Juan Carlos Caballero Lopez for documented false claim to U.S. citizenship and booked him into the El Paso County Jail where he is being held without bond.

“U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers remain vigilant as they review entry documents to identify and apprehend those who use fraudulent or invalid documents in an attempt to enter the U.S.,â€