What do U think PHOENIX DPS: 9-month ID theft investigation leads to arrest of 4 Mexican nationals?
With the country being flooded with with rampant fraudulent identifications how soon before we have another 9-11 ? Note here AFIT has so far identified two victims of identity theft how would you feel if one was you ?
PHOENIX — Authorities say four men were arrested when detectives with an Arizona ID fraud task force wrapped up a 9-month investigation into an identity theft group that was making fake IDs through a wide-scale criminal syndicate.
According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the multi-agency Arizona Fraudulent Identification Task Force (AFIT) served search warrants at three Phoenix homes early Thursday morning and arrested the suspects.
Arrested were Omar Balderrama Chalino, 29, Miguel Angel Cucto-Compos, 23, Enrique Valle-Araujo, 22 and Pavino Bahena-Baldez, 22.
DPS said one of the suspects had been previously arrested for drug possession, DUI, false reporting and fraudulent schemes and another had been previously arrested in an unrelated case for manufacturing fraudulent identifications.
Among other items, detectives seized a computer, card stock, a .22 caliber rifle and an device used to manufacture high quality I.D. cards. Most of the items were used in manufacturing fraudulent identifications, according to DPS.
DPS said the suspects had made large quantities of fraudulent identifications and other documents. AFIT has so far identified two victims of identity theft stemming from the investigation.
Officials say the illegal business that was the focal point of this investigation relied upon a customer base that consisted primarily of undocumented immigrants.
The four face charges of forgery, conducting an illegal enterprise, possession of forged documents and taking the identification of another person.
Enrique Valle-Araujo was also charged with misconduct involving weapons for possessing a firearm illegally. All suspects are Mexican nationals, according to DPS.
http://www.abc15.com/content/news/phoenixmetro/central/story/DPS-9-month-ID-theft-investigation-leads-to/pJ3lluG9y02FtSHy49rR0Q.cspx
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Glad to see Phoenix is finally waking up and enforcing the law. The two that had been arrested before should have been deported then.
How can we fight against these who commit fraud and buy these cards if the laws are not being enforced. Our government has let this identity theft and fraudulent I.D’s go way to far, They need to prosecute the ones who make these I.D’s and the ones who buy and use them. I guess they did not know it was against the law either.
The Phoenix police are going to make Phoenix a nice place to live if they keep this up. I bet one of our members is coming off the roof.
And I agree that the laws have not been enforced, and need to be enforced. But that corruption is happening at the Federal Level, and I would even suggest it is happening in Washington D.C. itself. Sure would like to put those rats in jail.