Police bust alleged fake ID ring; 5 arrested
Published: Sun, Dec. 17, 2006 12:00AM
Modified Sun, Dec. 17, 2006 02:13AM
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closeWINSTON-SALEM -- Investigators took computers Thursday from four people who were believed to be involved in a scheme to sell fake Social Security cards and other ID documents to illegal immigrants.
In all, five people were charged with 34 felony counts in the probe of a fake document ring operating out of a mobile home in Winston-Salem. One person arrested appeared to be a man purchasing a false identity document, said Lt. Jack Coltrane of the license and theft bureau in the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles .
"One gentleman was behind a computer printing stuff when we came in," Coltrane said. "He had a customer."
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Those arrested were Isai Sanchez, 17; Guadalupe Lopez Rodriguez, 28; Samuel Cruz Sanchez, 30; Antonio Yanes Moncada, 30; and Velisario Sanchez Ventura, 26. Coltrane said Moncada was buying the document.
Officials received a tip in September that led to surveillance of the mobile home on the southeastern side of the city.
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