Tag: US Department of State
Jose Luis Rodriguez, Passport Fraud, Connecticut 2026
⏱ 2 min read Jose Luis Rodriguez, a 46-year-old Dominican national, has been sentenced to 50 months in prison for perpetrating a brazen passport scam in Connecticut. Rodriguez, who was living in Waterbury, assumed the identity of a recently released prisoner and used it to obtain a US passport, which he then used for travel…
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…
Miguel Dario Bautista Jimenez, Passport Fraud, New Jersey 2026
⏱ 2 min read A brazen identity thief swindled his way to US citizenship and a passport, but his scheme came crashing down this week. Miguel Dario Bautista Jimenez, 41, of New Jersey, was charged with illegally obtaining US citizenship and a passport through a web of lies and deceit. Jimenez, a citizen of the…
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…
