The Star-Ledger
Twenty-six Latin American im migrants agreed yesterday to enroll in English classes and put their "best efforts" toward obtaining legal status in a case involving their use of false identification to obtain jobs at a manufacturing plant, authorities said.
The men were among 35 charged in December with using fake or stolen Social Security cards or resident alien cards while working at a plant in Montville owned by Dicar, Inc.
Seven cases are still pending in Superior Court in Morristown and two defendants have yet to be served with the complaints, authorities said. Most were either illegal immigrants or were legal immi grants whose visas had lapsed.
The case arose when a Florida man complained to the Montville Police Department that someone else was using his Social Security number. He had been denied health insurance coverage because someone else had insurance from that company under the Social Se curity number that he claimed was his, said Morris County Assistant Prosecutor Larry Whipple.
All 26 defendants, who had no prior convictions, will be enrolled in the Pretrial Intervention Program for one year and will emerge with clean records if they comply with the conditions.
Posted by tyne at March 13, 2007