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Juan Torres Rodriguez, a citizen of the Dominican Republic was sentenced in New Haven district court to 24 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft earlier this year.
On Jan. 27 last year, Torres Rodriguez, 39, posed as another person in an attempt to exchange a Puerto Rican driver’s license for a Connecticut driver’s license at the DMV in Wethersfield, U.S. Attorney John Durham said.
The Puerto Rican driver’s license was in the name of his victim, and Torres Rodriguez also presented a birth certificate and social security card with his victim’s name, according to Durham.
Durham said that the DMV employee recognized that the documents were fraudulent and confirmed that the birth certificate had been stolen. It was later determined that Torres Rodriguez’s victim had not given permission for him to use the documents.
Further investigation found that Torres Rodriguez had been removed from the country in 2001, 2013 and 2014.
Torres Rodriguez has been detained on his arrest and pleaded guilty on Jan. 22 to the aggravated identity theft charge.
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