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A Jamaican national, Roan Lynch, 54, used a stolen identity to obtain a US passport in a brazen scheme that exposed a vulnerability in the nation’s immigration system.
Lynch, a resident of Forsyth, Georgia, had previously been deported to Jamaica in 2000 after serving a federal prison sentence for conspiracy to distribute marijuana in the Western District of New York in 1997.
He then snuck back into the US, this time using a stolen identity to apply for a passport, which he used to travel freely between the two countries.
But his luck ran out when investigators from the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service caught up with him, charging him with making a false statement in an application for a passport, aggravated identity theft, and illegal reentry.
Lynch pleaded guilty to all three counts on April 6, and now faces up to 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a mandatory two-year consecutive sentence for the identity theft charge.
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📋 Key Facts
- Crime: White Collar Crime
- Defendant: identity theft
- Location: GA
- Source: DOJ Press Release
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