DISTRICT COURT: Illegal immigrant could face deportation
By Don Bowen/Fremont Tribune
Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 - 03:23:49 pm CDT

An illegal immigrant could soon be deported after being sentenced Tuesday in Dodge County District Court.

Ademar M.A. Fuentes, 19, of Fremont was sentenced to six months in the Dodge County Jail after earlier pleading guilty to criminal impersonation, a Class IV felony.

He admitted to using someone else’s identity for his employment records with a Fremont company.

Deputy Dodge County attorney Mark Boyer said Fuentes is in the United States illegally, and there is a hold on him from federal immigration agents. At the time he was arrested late last year he was on probation for driving while intoxicated, a Class W misdemeanor.

While Boyer asked Dodge County District Court Judge John Samson to sentence Fuentes to a prison term, Fuentes’s attorney, Nick Bogey, asked for a county jail sentence.

"This is going to cause him substantial problems with his immigration status," Bogey said, "and it will likely cause him to be removed from the United States."

Samson noted Fuentes used someone else’s identity to obtain a job but not to cause someone financial problems like wrongly charging items to a credit card.

"But that’s still against the law," Samson said.

In another matter, sentencing was scheduled for April 21 for Jonathan Manzanarez-Estrada, 19, of Fremont.

Manzanarez-Estrada pleaded no contest to possession of cocaine, a Class IV felony. He could be sentenced up to 10 years in prison and fined up to $10,000.

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