Marleny Castellanos, the alleged queen pin of an immigration fraud ring is out of bail tonight with her husband, Alfredo Marcos. Castellanos is accused of arranging documents for herself, her husband and 17 other people, and she is facing 40 different immigration charges.
2 weeks ago, their attorney, Kevin Arthurs, applied to Justice Troadio Gonzalez for Supreme Court bail on the grounds that all the charges that have been brought against them are misdemeanors with fines if they are found guilty. Additionally, Arthurs submitted that his clients are not flight risks. Crown Counsel Leroy Banner objected at that time that they could be flight risks, and that more charges against them were imminent.
Today, Justice Gonzalez ruled that both of them should be granted bail because other than the charges before the court, which are only allegations at this time, there was no other evidence which suggested that they weren't Belizeans. With that, he granted Castellanos bail of $20,000, and Marcos a bail of $10,000. The conditions were that they needed to surrender all travel documents, and that they report to the Queen Street Police Station every Friday until her cases are completed.
As we've told you, the couple is accused of stealing the identities of dead Belizeans from Benque Viejo, and then getting authentic looking fake birth certificates for themselves, which they then used to get nationality certificates, Passports, and social security cards. Her husband even managed to get a voters ID with the stolen identity. Under the law, they are currently recognized as brother and sister, and not as husband and wife. Apart from those charges, Castellanos is accused of arranging bogus birth certificates and nationality documents for 17 other persons who are living in the country illegally.
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