A Guatemalan citizen who repeatedly re-entered the United States illegally was sentenced earlier this month in an Omaha federal court for using a fraudulent Social Security number to obtain a job in Nebraska.
According to a Wednesday press release from the US Attorney’s Office, Gregorio Pablo-Lares, 38, was living in West Point, Nebraska, when he utilized a phony state ID and a fraudulent Social Security card to prove his identity. The Social Security Administration eventually confirmed that the SSN provided by Pablo-Lares belonged to someone else.
Homeland Security examined the case against Pablo-Lares. HSI established that an order to remove Pablo-Lares from the United States was issued in 2018 and that he was removed from the nation and returned to Guatemala three times between 2018 and 2019.
On July 18, Chief District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter Jr. sentenced Pablo-Lares to eight months in jail on each count of “intent to deceive” and “re-entry of a removed alien,” to be served concurrently, according to the statement.
The federal legal system does not offer the possibility of parole.