Man pleads guilty in federal court to using fake social security to get state ID
(WKBN) — A man arrested in January for trying to use a fake Social Security card to get a state ID pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court.
Diego Lopez Gomez, 33, entered his pleas before U.S. Judge Donald C. Nugent in the U.S. Northern District Court of Ohio to a bill of information charging him with possession of a fraudulent permanent resident card.
He was sentenced to time served and three years probation, but also ordered to turn himself in to federal immigration officials to be deported.
A criminal complaint in the case was filed Jan. 31 in federal court, a day after Lopez Gomez was arrested by Boardman police at the Department of Motor Vehicles on Boardman-Canfield Road.
Police were called by an employee of the BMV who said a man later identified as Lopez Gomez had fake documents he tried to give to the employee to get a state identification card.
Lopez Gomez presented a Social Security card that was fake, reports said. Reports said Lopez Gomez told police he worked at a local Mexican restaurant, and he gave officers a paystub and a W2 from there.
Police consulted authorities with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who asked that he be placed into custody. The criminal complaint was filed in federal court the next day.
He had been held in federal detention since the complaint was filed. An affidavit accompanying the criminal complaint said the Social Security card and number Lopez Gomez tried to use was fake.
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