FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	CONTACT: Lauren Horwood
November 21, 2011	PHONE: (916) 554-2706
www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae	usacae.edcapress@usdoj.gov
Docket #: 1:11-cr-00153-OWW

                FRESNO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Ruben Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 44, of Mexico, Margarito Zavala-Barrera, 32, of Mexico, and Noel Fernando Canales-Amador, 28, of Honduras, were sentenced today for conspiring to produce fraudulent immigration and identification documents. Gonzalez-Gonzalez was sentenced to one year in prison, Zavala-Barrera was sentenced to one year and three months in prison, and Canales-Amador was sentenced to 10 months in prison. The defendants pleaded guilty to the charges on September 6, 2011.

According to the plea agreements, between December 21, 2010 and April 6, 2011, Gonzalez‑Gonzalez sold fraudulent documents to customers, meeting them in public locations in Tulare County. He took their pictures and collected biographical information, which he then passed on to either Zavala-Barrera or Canales‑Amador to produce the requested documents. Gonzalez-Gonzalez charged about $80 for a set of documents that included a forged social security card and an alien registration card.

This case is the product of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Assistant United States Attorney Ian Garriques prosecuted the case.

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