Thread: Violent Mexican-Based Fraudulant Document Ring Busted

[quote]Two illegal aliens in Virginia Beach were indicted this week for their alleged role in a fake document ring that physically assaulted and murdered rival document producers to protect their operations in 19 cities.

U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride stated: “The indictment portrays a deadly criminal organization that uses brutal violence to eliminate rivals, protect its turf and enforce discipline against its own members.â€

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

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They are already here in the U.S. hiding in shadows. If we do not take a stronger stance against those who invades our Country, this Country will become a second Mexico.

Prosecutors pursue fraud ring, cite "unprecedented" violence

Kevin Johnson
36m ago



When Israel Cruz Millan sensed that competitors were moving in on his thriving criminal enterprise, he stopped at nothing to protect the business, federal prosecutors say.

A small army of enforcers allegedly carried out savage beatings of rivals, some of whom were bound and gagged prior to assaults that left at least one dead. Two years ago, two of Millan's men allegedly stuck the barrel of a semi-automatic handgun into a rival's mouth as a "warning," prosecutors say, for encroaching on company turf.

Misconduct or poor performance by members of Millan's own operation also did not go unpunished, according to federal court documents. One, accused of stealing from the organization, allegedly was beaten during a conference call with the group's top lieutenants in a dramatic show of force to discourage misbehavior.

The brutal conduct of Millan's operation, outlined in federal court papers late last month, bears all the hallmarks of international drug and gun trafficking cartels. But prosecutors say Millan's group dealt in a much more benign product rarely linked to such startling violence: Phony identification cards.

Millan and an accused top associate are scheduled to appear Tuesday in a Richmond, Va., federal courtroom. The 28-year-old illegal immigrant, also known as "El Muerto" (The Dead One), is charged with managing a far-reaching document fraud business with cells in 19 cities and 11 states that funneled at least $1 million to its top leaders in Mexico. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years to life in prison if convicted.

The entire business, court documents say, catered to emerging illegal immigrant communities throughout the country. The illegal immigrants paid $150 to $200 for fake Social Security numbers, U.S. residency cards and driver's licenses.

Neil MacBride, the top federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia who is overseeing the case, says the group is the subject of one of the largest document fraud prosecutions in recent U.S. history. But MacBride adds in an interview that the most striking aspect of this type of case is the "unprecedented level of extreme violence" that the group allegedly used against its competitors and its own employees.

"We've never seen anything like this," MacBride says, adding that the enterprise functioned in some ways like a "multinational corporation," with Millan serving as the chief executive of U.S. operations.

"Where they found competition, they eliminated them," MacBride says.

Hot commodities
Attorney Paul Gill, who is representing Millan, declined to comment, except to say that his client has pleaded not guilty to the conspiracy charges.

Millan is not charged with the violence — kidnapping, assaults and murder — that prosecutors say was an integral aspect of the business. MacBride did not elaborate on the charging decisions.

But Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deputy Assistant Director James Spero says the group's alleged operations outlined in last month's indictment make clear that Millan did not "object to using violence as a way of doing business."

Phony documents are hot commodities in immigrant communities. Workers are vying for a limited number of jobs in a down economy, and employers are facing sanctions for hiring undocumented labor. As a result, Spero says, phony document vendors are rushing to meet the demand.

Nationally, arrests related to document fraud increased last year to 1,503 from 1,243 in 2009, according to ICE records.

Spero says that as the numbers rise, investigators are encountering more aggressive vendors who increasingly are protecting their markets, including through physical intimidation or violence. During the last three months of 2010, federal agents probing fraud rings recorded 379 criminal arrests and 310 immigration-related arrests, while recovering 20 firearms, a mix of rifles and handguns.

Yet none of the groups' tactics rivaled the alleged brutality of Millan's operation.

"Although we have seen violence in the past," Spero says, "what stood out here was (the group's) willingness to use violence to control and manage their own organization."

Turf battle
Starting roughly in 2008, the group established footholds in 19 cities, including Raleigh, N.C., and Little Rock, court documents say. Locations were selected strategically to avoid the largest law enforcement agencies and to offer access to immigrant communities.

Designated "managers" in each city allegedly oversaw document production and the activities of a network of "runners," who worked the streets recruiting customers.

At the top of the organization, Millan "regularly corresponded with cell leaders," managed inventory, reviewed "bi-weekly sales reports" and monitored the competition in each market, the court papers say.

In perhaps the most chilling episode of violence described in the documents, prosecutors allege that Millan's Little Rock manager — Edy Oliverez-Jiminez, 24, aka "Jesus" — identified two rivals encroaching on the Little Rock market.

The men, one identified by prosecutors only by the initials "P.R.," were lured to an abandoned trailer house last July. Oliverez-Jiminez and other unnamed co-conspirators allegedly bound the victims' hands, feet, mouth and eyes, then badly beat them, court papers say.

P.R. was left bound on the floor and later died of his injuries, the documents say.

Oliverez-Jiminez, who is charged with the murder, faces a possible death penalty if convicted. His attorney, Paul Gregorio, says his client will plead not guilty. He also is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.

Gregorio declined to comment on the specific allegations in the documents, but he suggested that the prosecution had only outlined one side of the story.

"The theory and the evidence," Gregorio says, "sometimes don't always mesh."

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Originally Posted by jean

Prosecutors pursue fraud ring, cite "unprecedented" violence

Kevin Johnson
36m ago



When Israel Cruz Millan sensed that competitors were moving in on his thriving criminal enterprise, he stopped at nothing to protect the business, federal prosecutors say.

A small army of enforcers allegedly carried out savage beatings of rivals, some of whom were bound and gagged prior to assaults that left at least one dead. Two years ago, two of Millan's men allegedly stuck the barrel of a semi-automatic handgun into a rival's mouth as a "warning," prosecutors say, for encroaching on company turf.

Misconduct or poor performance by members of Millan's own operation also did not go unpunished, according to federal court documents. One, accused of stealing from the organization, allegedly was beaten during a conference call with the group's top lieutenants in a dramatic show of force to discourage misbehavior.

The brutal conduct of Millan's operation, outlined in federal court papers late last month, bears all the hallmarks of international drug and gun trafficking cartels. But prosecutors say Millan's group dealt in a much more benign product rarely linked to such startling violence: Phony identification cards.

Millan and an accused top associate are scheduled to appear Tuesday in a Richmond, Va., federal courtroom. The 28-year-old illegal immigrant, also known as "El Muerto" (The Dead One), is charged with managing a far-reaching document fraud business with cells in 19 cities and 11 states that funneled at least $1 million to its top leaders in Mexico. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years to life in prison if convicted.

The entire business, court documents say, catered to emerging illegal immigrant communities throughout the country. The illegal immigrants paid $150 to $200 for fake Social Security numbers, U.S. residency cards and driver's licenses.

Neil MacBride, the top federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia who is overseeing the case, says the group is the subject of one of the largest document fraud prosecutions in recent U.S. history. But MacBride adds in an interview that the most striking aspect of this type of case is the "unprecedented level of extreme violence" that the group allegedly used against its competitors and its own employees.

"We've never seen anything like this," MacBride says, adding that the enterprise functioned in some ways like a "multinational corporation," with Millan serving as the chief executive of U.S. operations.

"Where they found competition, they eliminated them," MacBride says.

Hot commodities
Attorney Paul Gill, who is representing Millan, declined to comment, except to say that his client has pleaded not guilty to the conspiracy charges.

Millan is not charged with the violence — kidnapping, assaults and murder — that prosecutors say was an integral aspect of the business. MacBride did not elaborate on the charging decisions.

But Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deputy Assistant Director James Spero says the group's alleged operations outlined in last month's indictment make clear that Millan did not "object to using violence as a way of doing business."

Phony documents are hot commodities in immigrant communities. Workers are vying for a limited number of jobs in a down economy, and employers are facing sanctions for hiring undocumented labor. As a result, Spero says, phony document vendors are rushing to meet the demand.

Nationally, arrests related to document fraud increased last year to 1,503 from 1,243 in 2009, according to ICE records.

Spero says that as the numbers rise, investigators are encountering more aggressive vendors who increasingly are protecting their markets, including through physical intimidation or violence. During the last three months of 2010, federal agents probing fraud rings recorded 379 criminal arrests and 310 immigration-related arrests, while recovering 20 firearms, a mix of rifles and handguns.

Yet none of the groups' tactics rivaled the alleged brutality of Millan's operation.

"Although we have seen violence in the past," Spero says, "what stood out here was (the group's) willingness to use violence to control and manage their own organization."

Turf battle
Starting roughly in 2008, the group established footholds in 19 cities, including Raleigh, N.C., and Little Rock, court documents say. Locations were selected strategically to avoid the largest law enforcement agencies and to offer access to immigrant communities.

Designated "managers" in each city allegedly oversaw document production and the activities of a network of "runners," who worked the streets recruiting customers.

At the top of the organization, Millan "regularly corresponded with cell leaders," managed inventory, reviewed "bi-weekly sales reports" and monitored the competition in each market, the court papers say.

In perhaps the most chilling episode of violence described in the documents, prosecutors allege that Millan's Little Rock manager — Edy Oliverez-Jiminez, 24, aka "Jesus" — identified two rivals encroaching on the Little Rock market.

The men, one identified by prosecutors only by the initials "P.R.," were lured to an abandoned trailer house last July. Oliverez-Jiminez and other unnamed co-conspirators allegedly bound the victims' hands, feet, mouth and eyes, then badly beat them, court papers say.

P.R. was left bound on the floor and later died of his injuries, the documents say.

Oliverez-Jiminez, who is charged with the murder, faces a possible death penalty if convicted. His attorney, Paul Gregorio, says his client will plead not guilty. He also is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.

Gregorio declined to comment on the specific allegations in the documents, but he suggested that the prosecution had only outlined one side of the story.

"The theory and the evidence," Gregorio says, "sometimes don't always mesh."

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The men, one identified by prosecutors only by the initials "P.R.," were lured to an abandoned trailer house last July. Oliverez-Jiminez and other unnamed co-conspirators allegedly bound the victims' hands, feet, mouth and eyes, then badly beat them, court papers say.

I wonder if the people who passed the immigration laws and guess worker program in the State of Utah recently know the State could become crime infested quickly by allowing so many illegal aliens to reside among citizens?

Thousands OF CALLS NEEDED TO UTAH, PLEASE JOIN IN!

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-230649.html

These people are terrorists, nothing more, and yet the border remains wide open for more terrorists to come on in! I suspect these fraudulent document rings are all over this country, aiding and abetting illegal invaders to commit theft of jobs, benefits and anything else they can get their hands on!

Why is E-Verify not MANDATORY on the federal level and in all 50 states, knowing that such a system could put these fraudulent document operations out of business overnight if implemented.

Also, I can only wonder how many of these criminals would receive amnesty under "immigration reform", this administration and the pro-illegal invader groups continue to demand.

Millan and an accused top associate are scheduled to appear Tuesday in a Richmond, Va., federal courtroom. The 28-year-old illegal immigrant, also known as "El Muerto"

This one could have signed up a class and qualified for the Democrats Dream Act.

If they did this in any other country the headlines would have read " Members of Fraudulant Document Ring Killed while trying to escape"! Only in AMERICA will they get the headlines, get to write their books and sell them, and some may even get to be set free in plea bargans

NC leader of document fraud ring pleads guilty



Updated 04:55 p.m., Wednesday, May 18, 2011


RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Another member of a violent, multistate fraudulent document ring has pleaded guilty in federal court in Virginia.

Juan Arroyo-Pantoja (ah-ROY'-oh-pan-TOE'-ha) pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of racketeering conspiracy, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Sentencing was set for Sept. 13.

According to court papers, Arroyo-Pantoja was the leader of the ring's Wilmington, N.C., cell. He supervised "runners" who recruited illegal aliens who wanted to buy fake IDs, which Arroyo-Pantoja created on a computer.

Twenty-seven people were arrested in November for their alleged roles in the ring. Seventeen have now pleaded guilty.

Prosecutors have said the Mexico-based ring produced more than 15,000 false documents for illegal immigrants in 11 states and protected its lucrative turf through kidnappings, beatings and the slaying of a rival.

www.ctpost.com