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By ED WHITE
Associated Press Writer

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A northern Utah woman told an undercover informant that she had sold more than 300 birth certificates to create identities, according to charges unsealed Thursday in federal court. Veronica Carrillo was arrested at a Logan apartment Tuesday, the same day that more than 100 people were arrested in an illegal-immigration investigation at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Hyrum, 10 miles south of Logan.

"She does not work at Swift," said Melodie Rydalch, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Salt Lake City. "However, we believe she may have provided documents to some of the employees working there." Carrillo, 41, a Mexican national, was charged with identity theft and the sale of citizenship papers. She was ordered to jail to await trial. An arraignment was set for Dec. 21. Carrillo's lawyer, Michael Jaenish, did not immediately return an Associated Press call seeking comment left after regular business hours.

Eleuterio Gutierrez of El Paso, Texas, was also charged but has not been found, Rydalch said. Authorities began investigating Carrillo on Nov. 1 after a tipster said she was selling birth certificates and Social Security numbers, immigration agent Greg McClune said in an affidavit. An informant wired with video and audio devices met with Carrillo a week later and agreed to pay $1,400 for two birth certificates and Social Security cards, McClune said. The documents were shipped from Texas and intercepted Nov. 14 by postal inspectors, who made copies and sent the envelope to Carrillo in Logan,

McClune said. Inspectors subsequently intercepted more envelopes from Texas. "Carrillo told the (informant) that she has sold over 300 U.S. birth certificates in the past," McClune said in his affidavit. Meanwhile, in Cache County, some of the 58 people charged with forgery and identity theft appeared Thursday in 1st District Court. They were among the 100 people arrested at the Swift plant, part of a federal sweep at meatpacking factories in six states.