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Agents probe suspected ID operation for illegal immigrants By TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot C November 27, 2007 Last updated: 10:51 PM NORFOLK For the second time this year, immigration agents say they have uncovered a phony immigration document mill in Virginia Beach, according to court filings made public Monday. Illegal immigrants could pay $110 to get papers that looked legitimate enough to gain employment, agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in the court filing. Armando "Luis" Gutierrez-Tlaczani, the suspected ringleader of the operation, reportedly was based in the Pembroke section of the city. He was ordered jailed without bond Monday after an appearance in U.S. District Court. Gutierrez-Tlaczani was arrested last week and charged with selling phony immigration documents from his apartment. The court papers did not list a specific address. Gutierrez-Tlaczani would receive a package containing phony documents at least once a week from someone in Los Angeles, according to a court affidavit filed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent Brett D. Kolb. He would then sell the documents - phony green cards and Social Security cards - to illegal immigrants who needed them to work in the United States, Kolb said in the filing. Postal authorities identified 16 packages delivered from Los Angeles to Gutierrez-Tlaczani's address since April. Records do not say how many documents were delivered. Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement began investigating Gutierrez-Tlaczani in August after an unidentified informant told them what was going on at the apartment, the court record says. The agents sent the informant to the apartment to buypurchase documents. After paying Gutierrez-Tlaczani $110 in August, the informant received a green card that was registered to a Polish woman and a Social Security card with a number that belongs to a child, Kolb said in the papers. The agents later learned that Gutierrez-Tlaczani had been deported four times since 1996. On two of those occasions, he was deported following convictions for cocaine trafficking, according to the court records. The agent in charge of the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office did not return phone calls seeking additional information. The lawyer for Gutierrez-Tlaczani declined to comment following Monday's court hearing. Gutierrez-Tlaczani will remain jailed pending grand jury proceedings. Immigration agents have filed a notice of deportation against him. This is the second suspected immigration document mill that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has uncovered in Virginia Beach this year. In March, Narciso Salas and his wife Maria Salas were arrested after agents discovered the couple selling phony documents from a taco stand on Virginia Beach Boulevard. The Salases pleaded guilty in federal court to selling fake documents. Narciso Salas was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison. His wife was sentenced to two years and two months in prison. Tim McGlone, (757) 446-2343, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=49109/stime=1196163418/nc1=3848614/nc2=4706133/nc3=3848641> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
