Posted on 06/01/2007 12:06:31 AM PDT by Baladas
MILWAUKEE - A 5-year veteran of the Milwaukee police force is on suspension and accused of living under a false identity since taking the name of a dead cousin eight years ago.
Federal prosecutors said the identity change by Oscar Ayala-Cornejo was documented in high school yearbooks of 1999: one showed he attended Pulaski High School under his own name before moving to Hamilton High School and attending as Jose A. Morales, the name of his cousin.
A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court Thursday said Ayala-Cornejo, 24, was born in Mexico and is not a U.S. citizen but his cousin was.
The complaint quotes a brother of the deceased as saying the real Jose Morales died of cancer in Mexico in 1989 or 1990. The brother also is quoted as saying his father offered to give his dead son's identity to Ayala-Cornejo, along with paperwork to back it up.
Ayala-Cornejo was charged with falsely representing himself as U.S. citizen, carrying up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Aaron Goodstein ordered him held in custody until a detention hearing Monday.
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm said state prosecutors were reviewing the case for possible charges.
The federal complaint said agents learned of the case from an anonymous telephone tip Feb. 20.
Wow!
Milwaukee PD has an officer that already has on the job training in
Identity Theft and Immigration Violations!
I wouldn’t be suprised if the leftists over at Madison don’t get a special
legislative resolution going to keep this illegal alien (if indeed he
actually is) in Wisconsin and on the force.
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