Mexican Man Sentenced To Federal Prison For False Claim Of
U.S. Citizenship
Contact: Peter Deegan
A man who falsely claimed U.S. citizenship was sentenced on October 6, 2001, to four months in federal prison.
MARCELO LOPEZ-GARCIA, age 37, from Mexico, received the prison term after a July 1, 2011, guilty plea to two counts of false claims of U.S. citizenship.
At the guilty plea, LOPEZ-GARCIA admitted that in February of 2010 and November of 2010, he knowingly claimed United States’ citizenship on employment forms used by two businesses in Sioux City where he was employed.
LOPEZ-GARCIA was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett. LOPEZ-GARCIA was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a one year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
LOPEZ-GARCIA 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 and the Enforcement and Removal Office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau.
Court file information is available at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl. The case file number is CR11-4029.
