Cedar Rapids — A Guatemalan citizen has been handed a 109-day sentence for fraudulently using an identification document to work in the United States. Cindy Fabiola Santos-Perez, aged 35, admitted to utilizing a fraudulent social security card on two separate occasions to prove her authorization to work in the U.S., and later falsely represented a social number as her account number.
Santos-Perez pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful use of an identification document. The sentence was imposed by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams in Cedar Rapids. In addition to her prison term, Santos-Perez must serve a 3-year term of supervised release after her release from prison.
This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative aimed at combating illegal immigration, eliminating cartels and transnational criminal organizations, and protecting communities from violent crime. Assistant United States Attorney Devra T. Hake prosecuted the case, with investigations conducted by the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Postville Police Department.
Operation Take Back America leverages resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETFs) and Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN). The court file information for this case can be found at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl, with the case file number 25-CR-2005.
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Key Facts
- State: Iowa
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes|Drug Trafficking|Organized Crime
- Source: Official Source ↗
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