Press Release
DAVIE MAN CONVICTED OF BULK CASH SMUGGLING, FAILURE TO REPORT TRANSPORTEDMONETARY INSTRUMENTS AND FALSE STATEMENTS
October 6, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Anthony V. Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Investigations, Harold Woodward, Director of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Miami Field Office, and Al Lamberti, Sheriff, Broward County Sheriff’s Office, announced that a federal jury in West Palm Beach found defendant Juan Antonio Moya-Rodriguez, 31, formerly of Davie, FL, guilty, following a two day trial.
More specifically, defendant Moya-Rodriguez was found guilty of bulk cash smuggling, in violation of Title 31, U.S.C. §5332(a), failure to report transported monetary instruments, in violation of Title 31, U.S.C. §5316(a)(1)(B), and making false statements to a federal agency, in violation of Title 18, U.S.C. §1001. Sentencing has been scheduled for December 14, 2009, before the U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks in West Palm Beach, FL. Moya-Rodriguez faces a statutory maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment on each count, to be followed by a term of up to three years of supervised as to each count.
According to evidence presented at trial, on July 26, 2009, ICE special agents arrested Juan Antonio Moya-Rodriguez, a lawful permanent resident of the United States, after he was found with approximately $123,548 in undeclared U.S. currency by Customs and Border Protection officers at the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport. Rodriguez was traveling on Spirit Airlines from Panama City, Panama, to the U.S. and had the U.S. currency taped to the inside of three pairs of jeans hidden at the bottom of his suit case. Rodriguez initially told Customs and Border Protection officers that he only had $7,500 in his possession. However, upon being confronted with the money recovered in the jeans, Rodriguez admitted to law enforcement that he possessed approximately $127,000.
Mr. Sloman commended the investigative efforts of ICE’s Office of Investigations, Customs and Border Protection, and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office Money Laundering Task Force. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Lothrop Morris and Jennifer C. Millien.
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