Midstate briefs: Stolen identity was sex offender, agent says
MURFREESBORO
Federal agents say an immigrant charged with identity theft is accused of trying to pass himself off as someone else with legal problems — a convicted sex offender.
Alejandro Borbonio-Fernandez, 41, was arrested April 27 after he started working in Murfreesboro under the identity of a man who was deported after failing to sign up for the sex offender registry, according to Anthony Langeland, a senior special agent with the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Langeland testified in Rutherford County General Sessions Court Monday that Borbonio-Fernandez stole the deported man's Social Security number.
Langeland said Borbonio-Fernandez used the Social Security number to obtain a fraudulent resident alien card. The defendant seemed not to realize the card was in the name of a sex offender.
"He said he found the Social Security card in a trashcan in South Carolina," Langeland said.
Judge David Loughry transferred the case to a grand jury for a possible indictment. Borbonio-Fernandez remains in custody.
— THE DAILY NEWS JOURNAL
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