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06-02-2007, 08:11 AM #1
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Illegal alien sentenced to 15 months in prison
Saturday, June 02, 2007 — Time: 8:05:07 AM EST
Illegal alien sentenced to 15 months in prison
By JEFFREY SAULTON, Staff Writer
PARKERSBURG — Sentences of 15 months in prison were pronounced Friday for one of six illegal aliens from Mexico who pleaded guilty to forgery and uttering of stolen checks from businesses.
Bernardino Popoca-Morales, 45, was charged with uttering and possessing forged instruments and reentered the country without applying for readmission after deportation to Mexico in 1999, officials said.
U.S. District Judge David A. Faber said the sentences were to run concurrently and Popoca-Morales would be deported upon completion of the sentences.
Faber said the one to three years of supervised release would be inactive upon deportation, but if Popoca-Morales reenters the country the supervised release will be reactivated and he will be obligated to contact the nearest probation office.
In the presentencing report it stated there was an active warrant for Popoca-Morales in California. He was placed on probation by a California court and the probation was inactive when he was deported. But it was reactivated when he returned. Including the previous failure to report upon reentering the country in the presentencing report added two points to the federal sentencing guidelines.
Faber denied a defense motion to disallow the points and then reversed his decision after reviewing the federal statute.
"I will give him a benefit of a doubt and I will disallow the two points and that will reduce the sentence since he will be released soon and he will be deported," Faber said. "The law is confused on this point."
Faber said because Popoca-Morales has no assets he would not impose a fine, but he would order him to pay a $200 federal court fee and restitution totaling $1,960.58. He said funds would come from work in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons Inmate Financial Responsibility Program.
Popoca-Morales was among the six who in March 2006 entered the BB&T and WesBanco bank branches in Vienna to cash stolen and fraudulent payroll checks drawn on the accounts of Alco Fence Co. of Vienna and MCM Mouldings of Millwood in Jackson County, according to federal prosecutors. Each check included the forged signature of Alco's and MCM 's office manager.
Each man, using an alias with false identification and accompanied by two others, presented the checks at each bank and received $986.90 on the Alco account and $997.50 on the MCM account, officials said.
In their plea agreements each man stated he knew the checks were stolen during a break-in at the companies and fraudulently drawn.
They were indicted on charges of uttering and possessing forged instruments. in October 2006 and pleaded guilty in January. Gerardo Sanchez Guzman, 23, Sandro Mora-Palomares, 24, Rafael Orizaga Reyes, 23, and Juan Carlos Villanueva Villega, 30, were sentenced in February to six months in federal prison. After their sentences are served, they will be deported to Mexico. In addition to the prison sentences each was assessed a $100 federal court fee.
A sixth defendant, Guillermina Guiterrez-Lara, 39, will be sentenced next week in Charleston. Guiterrez-Lara was charged with uttering and possessing forged instruments and reentered the country without applying for readmission after deportation to Mexico in 1999.
Contact Jeffrey Saulton at jsaulton@newsandsentinel.com
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06-02-2007, 08:35 AM #2Popoca-Morales was among the six who in March 2006 entered the BB&T and WesBanco bank branches in Vienna to cash stolen and fraudulent payroll checks drawn on the accounts of Alco Fence Co. of Vienna and MCM Mouldings of Millwood in Jackson County, according to federal prosecutors. Each check included the forged signature of Alco's and MCM 's office manager.
Geez......Calderon was absolutely right when he said...."Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico".
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06-02-2007, 09:07 AM #3
They need to give these guys a stiffer sentence.
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