The alleged arranger bogus immigration documents, 46 year old Marleny Castellanos, went back to court today on those additional charges for all those people who handed themselves into the Immigration Department, claiming she swindled them.
She was arraigned for 20 counts of aiding a person to use a document that he or she is not entitled to use. She pleaded not guilty, but she wasn't eligible for bail; Magistrate Dale Cayetano remanded her to prison until until July 17.
The Immigration Department also escorted Forty year old Guatemalan national Reina Ariano to court today for bogus documents. Ariano, a resident of Caye Caulker, was charged with 2 counts of using a document she is not entitled to use when she appear before Magistrate Dale Cayetano. She pled guilty to the charges and she was ordered to pay a fine of $1,000 for each count forthwith.
This morning at around 10:30, Ariano presented herself to the immigration office in Belize City. She carried Belizean birth and nationality certificates. The birth certificate was in the name of Rosita Mahler. When immigration officers checked with the Vital Statistics Unit they found that Rosita Mahler was not the biological mother of Ariano. As a result, Ariano's Belizean nationality certificate was cancelled and she was charged.
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