I posted this when the woman was first arrested but now we hear the sob story. She must really think we are stupid. Having gone through the immigration process and having relatives going through it I can tell you they check people with common names more than the rest of us. In fact they take alot longer to process due to their name. All that information is on the FBI website.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-102biga ... b01_layout

Woman accused of marrying 10 men goes to court
By Mike Clary | Sun-Sentinel.com
12:16 PM EST, January 2, 2008

A Hialeah woman accused of marrying 10 men without bothering to divorce any of them appeared in criminal court Wednesday to be arraigned on nine counts of bigamy.

Eunice Lopez, 26, told Circuit Judge Mark King Leban that she had hired an attorney to fight the felony charges. After setting a hearing date for later this month Leban told Lopez, "I suggest you stay away from churches."

Lopez smiled.

In what federal investigators say was a marriage fraud, Lopez is accused of already being married when she wed 10 undocumented immigrants between 2002 and 2006 in a scheme to make money, according to the Miami-Dade Office of the State Attorney and the Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Outside the courtroom, a visibly-pregnant Lopez, the mother of two young sons, denied ever being married. She said she had never heard of the men that prosecutors said she wed, sometimes in civil ceremonies within days of each other.

Ducking away from television cameras, Lopez blamed her legal troubles on confusion over her name, which she said was common. "Maybe someone is using my identification," she said.

Lopez was accompanied to the arraignment by her mother, Eurice Rodriguez, 56, who said the notoriety surrounding her daughter's arrest last month had "traumatized" her daughter's children, ages seven and eight. The children had seen their mother's mug-shot in the newspapers and on television, Rodriguez said.

"They come home from school crying because the kids say their mother is a criminal," said Rodriguez.

Lopez was taken into custody Dec. 12 when an officer in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach spotted her and another woman sitting by the causeway and drinking beer at 3 a.m. When the officer checked ran Lopez's identification, he discovered she was wanted on a Miami-Dade County warrant.

Lopez is to return to court Jan. 17 with her attorney. Leban set a tentative trial date for March 24.

Now free on $18,000 bond, Lopez was arrested once before, on a petty larceny charge. In May 2003 she was convicted and fined.