man sentenced to prison for using counterfeit documents to obtain employment
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who used counterfeit documents to obtain employment was sentenced on June 28, 2011, to 6 months in federal prison.
Melesio Balderas, age 43, from Mexico, received the prison term after a May 11, 2011, guilty plea to one count of fraud or misuse of documents to obtain employment.
At the guilty plea, Balderas admitted that in March of 2010, he used counterfeit documents in order to obtain employment in Sioux City.
Balderas was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. Balderas was sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a 1-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Balderas 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 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR11-4041.
