2 Phoenix men accused of creating fake IDs for undocumented migrants
Two undocumented men were indicted after being accused of creating fake IDs, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona said.
A grand jury indicted the two Phoenix residents last week, prosecutors said. (Department of Defense file photo)
(Department of Defense file photo)
PHOENIX — Two men accused of creating fake IDs have been indicted, authorities said on Thursday.
A federal grand jury in Phoenix indicted the two undocumented noncitizens, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.
The suspects, 46-year-old Jonathan De La Riva-Lorenzo and 48-year-old Fernando Minkes-Rodriguez, resided in Phoenix, prosecutors said.
They allegedly produced false identification documents made to look like legitimate U.S. papers. Their customer base consisted of people who were in the U.S. illegally, prosecutors said.
The two men asked customers to provide some information about themselves along with headshots to make their fake documents look legitimate, prosecutors said.
How did authorities find the men accused of creating fake IDs?
After getting federal search warrants, special agents with Homeland Security Investigations searched several Arizona locations associated with the two suspects on May 14.
They seized “a multitude of fraudulently made documents,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.
They also allegedly found supplies the two suspects used to make the fraudulent documents, such as:
- Industrial printers
- Laminate
- Ink cartridges
Both Riva-Lorenzo and Minkes-Rodriguez were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with creating fake IDs and two counts of aggravated identity theft.
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"2 Phoenix Men" actually it was two illegal aliens from Mexico, not two Phoenix men. 2 men who are not authorized to be in the USA. Get it right.
I was the one that actually caused this, after catching the close friends of Greg Stanton, Kate Gallego, Kris Mayes, Brahm Resnik and several other TDS Alum hiring illegals with my identity, multiple times. When I reached out to the business (The Farm at South Mountain) they decided to let their illegally employed illegal alien know so he could take off instead of doing the right thing and helping coordinate with law enforcement. 3.5 years and several complaints later, Kris Mayes has allowed her good friends Pat Chirstofolo and Greg Brownell to get away with circumventing our E-Verify laws in order to hire illegals with stolen identities of Arizonans. My identity is locked with E-Verify, which is required by Arizona law, which requires me to take other steps in order to verify my identity. Not only did I not receive any alerts, but after calling E-Verify they also verified my name was never ran through them at all. Sean Rice from 12news and I actually did a story together on this, but I have since been ghosted after many broken promises. Turned out half the newsroom, including Brahm Resnik are friends with these people.