MEXICAN MAN WORKING UNDER ANOTHER’S IDENTITY SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS PRISON
Contact: Peter Deegan
A Mexican man who used the identity of another person to gain employment in the United States was sentenced on March 3, 2011, to more than two years in federal prison.
Andres Hernandez-Marmolejo, 39, from Michoacan, Mexico, and living in Postville, Iowa, received the prison term after pleading guilty on September 29, 2010, to making a false claim of citizenship on an employment form I-9 and to possessing false identity documents. Hernandez-Marmolejo also later pled guilty to aggravated identity theft.
At the guilty plea, Hernandez-Marmolejo admitted he knowingly used a social security number of an actual person to gain employment under that person’s identity.
Hernandez-Marmolejo was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade. Hernandez-Marmolejo was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on the charge of aggravated identity theft, and a special assessment of $100 was imposed. He was also sentenced to an additional three months’ imprisonment for making a false claim of citizenship on the employment form and for possessing a false document. Additional special assessments of $200 were imposed for those charges. He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system. Defendant is subject to removal from the United States after serving his prison term.
Hernandez-Marmolejo 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 Marti S. Sleister and investigated by Homeland Security Investigations.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR10-1016.
