Jorge Gutierrez-Sanchez, Social Security Number Misuse, Louisiana 2014

Hard-hitting crime journalist, Grimy Times

Jorge Gutierrez-Sanchez, a 29-year-old Mexican citizen, has been sentenced to six months in prison for falsely using two different social security numbers to obtain training for employment in Louisiana, 2014.

On May 6, 2014, Gutierrez-Sanchez was hired by Insulations Inc., a company in Harahan, Louisiana, using the name Erick Steven Couvertier-Rivera and social security number XXX-XX-6526. He completed the I-9 form claiming U.S. citizenship and a W-4 form using a driver’s license with his own photo in Couvertier-Rivera’s name and social security number.

On May 7, 2014, Gutierrez-Sanchez attended training at Gulf Coast Safety Council in St. Charles Parish, presenting the same driver’s license and social security number in Couvertier-Rivera’s name.

This was not the first time Gutierrez-Sanchez had attended a Gulf Coast Safety Council training. On January 31, 2014, he went to employment training and presented GCSC personnel with a driver’s license with his photo, but in the name Frank Farias, and a social security card in Frank Farias’s name with the number XXX-XX-7281.

The same day, Gutierrez-Sanchez was posing as Frank Farias, another individual went to GCSC for employment training and presented himself as Eusebio Ramirez, Jr. with a social security card with the number XXX-XX-4930 in the name of Eusebio Ramirez, Jr., and a driver’s license in the name of Eusebio Ramirez, Jr., but with Gutierrez-Sanchez’s picture on it.

U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite praised the work of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in investigating this matter. Assistant United States Attorney Emily K. Greenfield prosecuted the case.

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