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Utah -- Following the crackdown on undocumented workers in northern Utah investigators have charged two people with the sale of citizenship papers and identity theft.
145 were arrested at the Swift meat packing plant in Hyrum as part of a six-state operation that rounded up 13-hundred people.
Authorities say Veronica Carillo, a Mexican national living in Logan, told an undercover informant she had sold more than 300 real birth certificates and Social Security numbers to create identities. She's in the Weber County Jail tonight.
The other suspect is Elecuterio Gutierrez. He's a fugitive US citizen with an El Paso, Texas mailing address.
The use of stolen social security numbers by illegal immigrants was the driving force behind that raid. This type of ID theft can have damaging effects and you may not even know you're a victim.
Posted by tyne at December 15, 2006