Tag: Diplomatic Security Service
Mariano Andujar Perez, Aggravated Identity Theft, Passport Fraud, Massachusetts 2026
⏱ 2 min read Mariano Andujar Perez, a 43-year-old Dominican national, was sentenced to 2 years and 1 day in prison for aggravated identity theft, passport fraud, and other crimes in Boston, MA. Perez, who was unlawfully residing in Hyde Park, MA, pleaded guilty in March 2026 to misusing a Social Security number, making false…
Carlos Felipe Jaramillo Grajales, Identity Theft and Voter Fraud, Florida 2026
⏱ 2 min read Carlos Felipe Jaramillo Grajales, a 55-year-old Colombian national, pleaded guilty to making false statements and identity theft in Jacksonville, Florida. Between 2003 and 2024, Jaramillo Grajales used the identity of a US citizen to obtain a US passport, driver’s license, and vote in several elections, including the 2020 election in Duval…
East Bay Duo, H1-B Visa Fraud, California 2023
⏱ 3 min read Two East Bay men, Sampath Rajidi and Sreedhar Mada, were busted for a brazen H1-B visa scam. They claimed their clients would work at the University of California, but it was all a lie. Rajidi ran two visa servicing companies, S-Team Software and Uptrend Technologies, and Mada was the Chief Information…
Ana Silvia Garcia, Identity Theft, Texas 2026
⏱ 2 min read A brazen thief in Southern Texas has spilled the beans on a decades-long scheme to rip off the government. Ana Silvia Garcia, 62, a Mexican national living in Houston, used a borrowed Social Security number to scam disability and Medicare benefits since 1992. The scammer submitted fake immigration petitions for her…
Medard Elonge, Conspiracy to Defraud the US, Iowa 2026
⏱ 2 min read A Congolese citizen living in Sioux City, Iowa, has been sentenced to 12 months in federal prison for his role in a brazen sham marriage scheme to defraud the US. Medard Elonge, 40, entered the US in 2022 on a student visa and later applied for asylum. But instead of waiting…
Roan Lynch, Identity Theft, California 2022
⏱ 3 min read 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…
Donny Bernard Ross, Bank Fraud, Florida 2023
⏱ 2 min read Donny Bernard Ross, 49, Elizabeth Ann Rogers, 39, and Vontavius Jamaal Bradley, 23, all of Pensacola, Florida, have been indicted for their involvement in a stolen identity and bank fraud ring. The trio allegedly conspired to commit bank fraud, used false passports, and engaged in aggravated identity theft. The scheme was…
