Officials: Sailor used fake name for 22 years

[unhappycamper]

Officials: Sailor used fake name for 22 years
By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Dec 29, 2009 18:58:14 EST

State Department investigators say Chief Engineman (SW) Arturo Puente, assigned to Naval Station Mayport, Fla., has used a false name for the last 22 years, court papers show.

The 41-year-old sailor was charged in federal court as “John Doe, AKA Arturo Puente” and was accused of making false statements when he applied for a diplomatic passport in November 2006 while working at the U.S. Embassy in Panama, according to an affidavit filed in federal court in the District of Columbia.

A recent State Department investigation found that the real Arturo Puente died at the age of 11 in Oregon in April 1980.

In his passport application, the chief had listed the real Arturo Puente’s parents as his own, according to the affidavit filed by Mark Baird, a State Department special agent who investigates passport fraud.

Puente’s mother, Carolina Medina, told investigators that the birth certificate issued to her dead son was stolen during a car theft shortly before the child’s death, court records show.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/12/navy_puente_122909w/




unhappycamper comment: IF this guy has a security clearance, everyone who approved it should be court-marshaled.

[Historic NY]

1. & we were worried by alleged fake flight boarding w/o a passport...

by a terrorist, what lurks here should scare people.

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. did he end of working at an advertising agency by any chance?

Don Draper would be jealous.