Thread: Mom tries to sell dead child's ID to illegal

Woman tries to sell Pakistani native - who is facing deportation - name of her dead son

BY Oren Yaniv
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, February 25th 2010, 4:00 AM
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A Pakistani native is facing deportation after being charged Wednesday with buying the identity of a Brooklyn boy who died at age 8.

Staten Island deli worker Rizwan Ahmed, 24, paid $10,000 to Hazel Benson, 55, to pass himself off as her son Michael Keller, who died in 1996 after a long illness, prosecutors said.

The ghoulish scheme veered off course at the Department of Motor Vehicles, where the deceptive duo showed up last June 3. Benson presented her dead boy's Social Security card and identified Ahmed as her son, but the application was denied and flagged for inspection.

"It was stupid and I was desperate," Benson, of Crown Heights, said yesterday. She wasn't looking for money, she added, but for help in caring for her 90-year-old mom, who suffers from dementia.

"I never received a dime," Benson insisted. She admitted to accompanying Ahmed to the DMV along with his uncle, a longtime friend she knew as Ali.

Benson was arrested Jan. 28 and charged with fraud, forgery and other counts.

Ahmed, who prosecutors said entered and stayed in this country illegally, was nabbed Monday and slapped with similar charges.

"I paid her $10,000 to get documents because I knew I couldn't get an American ID," he told cops, court papers say.

Even before his arraignment yesterday, immigration officials swooped in - an indication that Ahmed will be detained ahead of potential deportation regardless of the outcome of the legal proceedings. He was ordered held without bail.

Benson said the case is being handled too aggressively because of Ahmed's ethnicity.

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'Benson said the case is being handled too aggressively because of Ahmed's ethnicity.'


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