Thread: MD-Restaurant Owner Jailed for Illegal Immigration Scheme

Wheaton Restaurant Owner Sentenced to Jail for Illegal Immigration Scheme

Last Edited: Monday, 29 Sep 2008, 4:50 PM EDT
Created: Monday, 29 Sep 2008, 4:50 PM EDT



GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- An owner of a popular chicken restaurant in Wheaton has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for money laundering and plotting to harbor illegal immigrants.

Fifty-seven-year-old Juan Solano of Kensington was also sentenced Monday to three years probation and ordered to pay back taxes on the operation of El Pollo Rico.

Solano's sister, 69-year-old Consuelo Solano, was sentenced last week to two months imprisonment and eight months home detention.

U.S. District Judge Roger Titus also ordered the Solanos to forfeit $7.2 million.

According to court documents, Juan Solano hired undocumented immigrants to work at El Pollo Rico from 1999 to 2007, paying them in cash and housing the workers to hide them from authorities.
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