Illegal Alien Guilty of Misrepresenting Social Security Number

CONCORD, NH - A Dominican national who has been in the United States illegally for about six years pled guilty in U.S. District Court last week to misrepresenting a social security number and and falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen while attempting to get a New Hampshire driver’s license.

Alberto Martinez, of the Dominican Republic, pled guilty to the counts in court on March 3, 2016.

According to U.S. Attorney Emily Gray Rice, in November 2015, a New Hampshire State Trooper requested assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal Operations (ICE-ERO) in identifying an individual who was attempting to renew a New Hampshire driver’s license at the Salem NH DMV.

Initially, Martinez claimed to be a U.S. citizen born in Puerto Rico. He had filled out and signed a renewal application on which he had entered a Social Security number which had not been assigned to him and had answered “yes” to the question “Are you a United States citizen?” Martinez was identifying himself as “Jose Juan Colon Nieves” of Manchester.

According to troopers, Martinez also allegedly had another fake license under the name of “Hector Manuel Adorno Barroso,” 46, of Hazelton, PA.

ICE-ERO agents informed Martinez that they intended to submit his fingerprints to the Department of Homeland Security’s Integrated Automated Biometric Identification System (IAFIS) and the Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) for comparison to FBI and ICE databases. Before being fingerprinted, the defendant admitted that his true name was Alberto Martinez, that he was born in the Dominican Republic and was a citizen of that country, and that he illegally entered the United States about six years earlier by walking across the United States border with Mexico.

At the time of his arrest, Martinez had been living in Boston, MA, according to NHSP.

Martinez will be sentenced on June 20, 2016, and will be deported after serving his sentence.

The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the New Hampshire State Police. Assistant U.S. Attorney Alfred Rubega is prosecuting this case.