Thread: Logan woman charged with selling fake IDs

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Logan woman charged with selling fake IDs
Veronica Carrillo arrested in national immigration bust
By Pamela Manson
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
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Posted: 1:50 PM- A Logan woman has been accused of selling birth certificates and Social Security cards after an informant wired with a hidden video camera allegedly purchased the documents from her.

A federal complaint charges Veronica Carrillo with two counts each of sale of citizenship papers and aggravated identity theft. On Thursday, U.S. District Magistrate David Nuffer in Salt Lake City ordered the Mexican national detained pending resolution of the case.

Also charged with the same counts in the complaint, which was filed Dec. 7 and unsealed Thursday, is the man who allegedly provided the documents, Eleuterio Gutierrez of El Paso.

The charges stem from a nationwide investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents into possible identity fraud. That same probe led to raids on Tuesday at six Swift & Co. plants, including one in Hyrum. A total of 1,282 workers were detained, 145 of them in Utah. Officials are checking the immigration status of the detainees and whether there is any evidence of ID fraud.

Carrillo, who does not work for Swift, was arrested separately the same day as the raids. Gutierrez has not been arrested yet and is listed on the court docket as a fugitive.

The federal complaint against the two says a "Source of Information" told ICE that a woman named Veronica was selling U.S. birth certificates and Social Security cards from her home. At the direction of agents, the source met with Carrillo on Nov. 7 and arranged to buy two of each of the documents for $1,400, according to the complaint.

The Logan woman allegedly told the source that she had sold more than 300 birth certificates in the past and that it would take about a week to get the documents from her source in Texas.

Postal inspectors say they intercepted an envelope addressed to Carrillo that contained two Illinois birth certificates and two corresponding Social Security cards. After photographing the contents of the envelope - which had Gutierrez' return address on it - they resealed it and had it delivered.

The source allegedly picked up one set of documents for a male on Nov. 15 and asked that the second set be for a female. Again, a birth certificate and Social Security card from Gutierrez arrived about a week later, according to postal inspectors. They say the documents were those of a female born in 1980 in El Paso.

A third envelope from Gutierrez to Carrillo, this one with two sets of documents, was intercepted on Nov. 26, the criminal complaint says.
Sale of citizenship papers carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and aggravated identity theft has a mandatory minimum sentence of two years for each count.
pmanson@sltrib.com

YEA ! there is one person off the streets who are hurting people by selling them fake papers. not to mention the real americans who have to suffer from this crapola