| | |  Americas & Beyond | September 2009 
Mexico Man Sentenced for Role in Fake ID Ring
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September 18, 2009
Denver – A Mexico resident has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison after admitting a role in a massive operation that manufactured and sold counterfeit identity documents in seven U.S. cities.
U.S. Attorney David Gaouette said Thursday that 46-year-old Pedro Castorena-Ibarra's organization was one of the largest fraudulent ID rings in the country.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seized more than 3 million counterfeit documents worth more than $20 million during the investigation.
They said it operated for about five years in Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas and New York City.
Castorena-Ibarra of Guadalajara was sentenced last week to 57 months in prison. He pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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