Three sentenced in ME on document fraud charges
May 15, 2009
Bangor, ME -- Three men have been sentenced in U.S. District Court to time served in two separate immigration fraud cases.
Ismael Ramirez de Ochoa, 38, and Javier Colegio, 40, both Mexican nationals who worked in Maine's blueberry industry, were sentenced Wednesday.
Marcelo Alejandro Silva-Bonilla, 33, a native of Uruguay who had been living in Presque Isle, was sentenced Tuesday.
The Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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