Mexican Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For Using Fraudulent Documents
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who illegally claimed U.S. citizenship and used a false social security number and regulated documents was sentenced on August 5, 2010, to four months in federal prison.
Abel Trejo-Gutierrez, age 40, from Sioux City, Iowa, received the prison term after June 30, 2010, guilty pleas to one count of making a false claim of citizenship, one count of use of a false social security number, and one count of fraud and misuse of regulated documents.
At the guilty plea, Trejo-Gutierrez admitted he presented a false social security card and other false identification documents on December 29, 2009, when applying for a job in Sioux City.
Trejo-Gutierrez was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Lopez-Martinez was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a two-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Trejo-Gutierrez is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kevin C. Fletcher and investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is 10-CR-04036.
