Thread: CA: Woman arrested for welfare fraud

May 24, 2008

Woman arrested for welfare fraud

Saturday, May 24, 2008

By The Madera Tribune


Allegations of welfare fraud and perjury returned a Madera mother and her children into the custody of authorities Friday for a second time in a year. The children are with Child Protective Services while their mother, 28-year-old Nora Yesenia Guillen, is in county jail.

Guillen was arrested after appearing in court Friday morning to answer to drug and child endangerment charges stemming from her previous arrest on July 17, 2007.

In July, eight agents with the valley's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) team arrested Guillen and her mother, 46-year-old Dora Vasquez, at Guillen's home on Tulare Street in Madera.

Guillen's five children, ranging in age from toddler to 9 years of age, were taken by CPS and both Guillen and Vasquez were accused of leading a methamphetamine sales operation from the home. The boyfriends of the two women were also arrested.

Vasquez has been in state custody on an immigration hold. Guillen has been out on a $100,000 bail and had regained custody of her five kids.

Agents allege that not only did Guillen, Vasquez and their boyfriends use Guillen's three-bedroom 2-bathroom house to deal drugs but also were collecting public assistance and benefiting from it illegally. The crux is at least two automobiles Guillen bought while claiming she had no income, as well as a wall-sized flat screen television, LCD screens, cell phones and other property in the home.

According to records, said public information officer Erica Stuart of the Madera County Sheriff's Department, Guillen never bothered to declare her assets when she applied at the Madera County Department of Social Services for assistance, which she has been receiving since at least 2006.

www.maderatribune.com

Yep....we used to see the same things here. High end vehicles, big screens, up to date electronics, cell phones galore, brand new furniture, brand name shoes and clothing....you name it. All while collecting welfare in addition to one or two sources of other income the state didn't know about.

They were all stripped of everything once their ability tio collect public assistance no questions asked was taken away.

CA ought to try it sometime. It really does work!!

Guillen was arrested after appearing in court Friday morning to answer to drug and child endangerment charges stemming from her previous arrest on July 17, 2007.

Receiving assistance since (at least) 2006.
Charged with child endangerment / drugs July 2007.
It took almost a year to get her into court!
Still had custody of her five kids all this time!
Now she's out and has these kids again?????

DHS workers should be fired and replaced with former corrections officers or prison guards!

The pittiful excuse you get if you call to report these kinds of people is "we just don't have the resources..."
GET PEOPLE OFF WELFARE AND PUT THEM TO WORK INVESTIGATING THE HOMES IN THESE CASES!!!

There must be some mistake illegal aliens oops I meant undocumented workers only add to our economy, we should not punish this fine women of outstanding family values.The fault lies with not showing her how to
collect welfare under multiple names so she and her hard working boyfriends and mother wouldn't have to deal drugs.

Flat screen TVs will help her keep up with her hometown news Via Telemundo, to say nothing of the tax money wasted on jail and a public defender, monies that should go to pay for college for the 5 (as of now)
kids.

and not only that they are only doing the JOBS that AMERICANS do not want to do, and also remember they only come here to FED their families.
Gee I wonder if BUSH really know whats going on, or is it that his in bed with mexico and not really even careing about the AMERICAN people WHO PAY his wages. He ought to ASHAMED OF HIMSELF.

Originally Posted by koobster

Gee I wonder if BUSH really know whats going on,.."