Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 17

D.C. ICE Agents Arrest 16 in “Card Shark”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — ICE special agents from Washington, D.C. arrested 16 individuals at five separate locations and seized counterfeit documents in a continuing operation to disrupt and dismantle false document, open-air markets in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

ICE agents, assisted by the U.S. Secret Service, discovered and seized fraudulent Social Security cards, laminating machines, typewriters, and bags of documentary evidence. The aliens arrested remain in custody on immigration violations and some could face criminal charges.

At one location, ICE and Secret Service agents arrested an alien and discovered a firearm, along with several bags of fraudulent document stock, including fraudulent Social Security cards; laminates; a typewriter and a laminating machine. That individual remains in custody on criminal charges of alien in possession of a firearm.

“These arrests demonstrate our continuing commitment to rid the D.C. area of fraudulent document organizations,” said Alan Doody, Special Agent-in-Charge of ICE Washington D.C. Investigations.

“False identity documents pose a serious homeland security threat in that they can be provided to criminals and terrorists and used for virtually any purpose. Working with our law enforcement partners, we will continue to target these organizations,” Doody said.

The arrests are part of a continuing initiative called “Operation Card Shark.” The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, U.S. Secret Service Uniform Division, the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General, and the Metropolitan Police Department assisted in the investigation.

Since May 2002, Operation Card Shark has identified several document vending organizations and has dismantled three of them. Eleven search warrants have been executed, five document “mills” have been shut down, approximately 10,000 documents have been seized (with an estimated street value of $450,000), over 159 aliens have been apprehended and 40 have been prosecuted.

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