Two Chamblee Men Sentenced in Fake ID Case

Two Chamblee men have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to manufacture, sell, and distribute counterfeit federal Permanent Resident and Social Security cards.

Horacio Sanchez-Lopez, 42, has been sentenced to one year, two months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Sanchez-Lopez is an illegal alien from Mexico, and has been ordered to be transferred for deportation proceedings.

Jorge Manuel Rosado, 45, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.

“Trafficking in counterfeit immigration and Social Security documents threatens the integrity of systems which verify employment,” said U. S. Attorney John Horn. “Forged documents not only circumvent those systems, but can also be used for more nefarious activities.”

In summer 2014, Homeland Security Investigations agents began investigating a conspiracy that sold counterfeit identification documents around Chamblee. Agents bought several sets of ID cards from Sanchez-Lopez and Rosado.

On Oct. 16, 2014, agents searched the Chamblee house where Sanchez-Lopez, Rosado, and others lived. While the conspirators had moved the computer they had been using to make the fraudulent documents, agents found, among other things, a used printer ribbon that lab analysis later found contained 215 images of ID cards.

Agents also recovered 93 fraudulent cards that had been cut in half and thrown in a trash can, and a smart phone that contained thousands of passport-style photos for ID cards.