Cristian Alvarado Morales, Selling Fraudulent IDs, Oklahoma 2020

Two Tulsa men, Cristian Alvarado Morales and Anderson Garces Lopez, have pleaded guilty to selling fraudulent social security and permanent resident cards to individuals living in the United States illegally.

According to court documents, Morales, 30, and Lopez, 29, sold the fake IDs for personal profit. In their plea agreements, both men admitted to conspiring to sell the fraudulent documents.

The pair used the identities of individuals both living and deceased. They sold more than 100 false or fraudulent identification documents, which included social security and permanent resident cards.

“Motivated by greed, Alvarado and Garces enabled countless illegal aliens to flout our nation’s immigration laws by selling phony identification documents for profit,” said U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.

This is not the first time Morales has been in trouble with the law. He was previously removed from the United States on March 25, 2008, from Laredo, Texas.

U.S. District Judge John E. Dowdell set sentencing for February 10, 2020. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard M. Cella is prosecuting the case.

“Protecting our Homeland takes many forms, but enforcing the integrity of U.S. identity documents is a critical element,” said Ryan L. Spradlin, special agent in charge of the Dallas Office of Homeland Security Investigations, which includes Oklahoma.

The HSI-led Document and Benefit Fraud Task Forces nationwide investigate the individuals and organizations who try to reap illegal profits by producing and distributing fraudulent documents.

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