Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 21

Bakersfield ICE Agents Raid Home Grown Counterfeiters

Bakersfield, Calif.—ICE agents arrested seven Kern County residents September 30 for manufacturing and selling fraudulent identification and immigration documents out of their homes.

ICE worked with the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and officers from the Kern County Sheriff’s Department and the Taft Police Department.

The arrests follow a undercover investigation that resulted in the execution of search warrants at six homes allegedly being used as bases of operation for large-scale counterfeit document fraud. Computers, media storage devices and counterfeit documents, including false Social Security cards, driver’s licenses and resident alien cards, (“green cards”) were seized. ICE agents say the six locations dismantled today appeared to be operating independently of one another.

“Targeting those responsible for making and selling fraudulent documents is an enforcement priority for ICE,” said ICE Bakersfield Resident Agent-in-Charge Michael Toms. “Anyone who knowingly and indiscriminately sells phony identity cards is putting the security of our communities and even our country at risk. Documents like this could potentially be used by terrorists or other dangerous criminals to obscure their identities and cover their tracks.”

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