Anchorage officer charged with passport fraud

[CitaDeL]

http://www.adn.com/2011/04/22/1823607/23arrestedcop.html

An Anchorage police officer who took on a false identity that masked his Mexican citizenship has been arrested and charged with passport fraud, federal officials said today.

At a news conference Friday, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler said that patrolman Rafael Espinoza, on the Anchorage police force for about six years, was really Rafael Mora-Lopez, a Mexican national working in the United States illegally.


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[Ayatollahgondola]

Wonder who conducted his background check?

If there even was one, the checker should be fired too.

[ilbegone]

Does the city of Anchorage forbid the use of E-verify?

[Ayatollahgondola]

Does the city of Anchorage forbid the use of E-verify?

No, they don't see many illegals up that way yet, so it isn't their first thought. Last time I read of an illegal being detained up that way, she was from tonga or somewhere's thereabouts.

[ilbegone]

No, they don't see many illegals up that way yet, so it isn't their first thought. Last time I read of an illegal being detained up that way, she was from tonga or somewhere's thereabouts.

About 5 or six years ago I was working with a whole scad of Mexicans in the Coachella Valley (significant number illegal), one of them told me a story about working in Alaska several times in the seafood industry while being illegal, and he wasn't the only illegal in his story by any means.

Just prior to that, I was in Southern Washington for a month or so, it seemed to me that it was about equal thirds of loggers, hippies, and "crossed the southern border last night" looking people who weren't fluent with King Georges' English.

However, the subject was a police officer. He had to communicate exceptionally well in English, write reports, he had to fit in. He wasn't some chuntaro with three generations living in his house with the garage converted into an apartment for the primos. No goats, chickens, and he probably didn't wear a Tejano and cowboy boots. And, if he did listen to Ranchera music, for sure he didn't blare it around town at 9000 decibels in a beat up car worth less than an impound fee.

He was probably brought to the US real young.

[Ayatollahgondola]

About 5 or six years ago I was working with a whole scad of Mexicans in the Coachella Valley (significant number illegal), one of them told me a story about working in Alaska several times in the seafood industry while being illegal, and he wasn't the only illegal in his story by any means.

Just prior to that, I was in Southern Washington for a month or so, it seemed to me that it was about equal thirds of loggers, hippies, and "crossed the southern border last night" looking people who weren't fluent with King Georges' English.

However, the subject was a police officer. He had to communicate exceptionally well in English, write reports, he had to fit in. He wasn't some chuntaro with three generations living in his house with the garage converted into an apartment for the primos. No goats, chickens, and he probably didn't wear a Tejano and cowboy boots. And, if he did listen to Ranchera music, for sure he didn't blare it around town at 9000 decibels in a beat up car worth less than an impound fee.

He was probably brought to the US real young.

Washington state,...yes, no surprise there. The fishing fleet...again, no surprise there. Working off shore is somewhat different. Your ship can be registered in many countries, and admiralty law plays a big part in labor aboard.
But mainland Alaska...not many mecksicans yet. I don't think they like the cold, nor do they stand up to cabin fever well. Mexicans are too social to be couped up alone for long.

[ilbegone]

Washington state,...yes, no surprise there. The fishing fleet...again, no surprise there. Working off shore is somewhat different. Your ship can be registered in many countries, and admiralty law plays a big part in labor aboard.
But mainland Alaska...not many mecksicans yet. I don't think they like the cold, nor do they stand up to cabin fever well. Mexicans are too social to be couped up alone for long.

Part of the story had to do with maybe just such cabin fever and necessary sociability.

While in Alaska, the Mexican I worked with in the CV and an illegal buddy had the pressing compulsion to visit a whorehouse. After they left, he expressed buyers' remorse due to the fact that he had squandered $600.00. The other illegal told him not to feel so bad about $600.00, he himself had been suckered for something like $10,000.00

Wow. That man must have really needed some "quality time".

[Ayatollahgondola]

Part of the story had to do with maybe just such cabin fever and necessary sociability.

While in Alaska, the Mexican I worked with in the CV and an illegal buddy had the pressing compulsion to visit a whorehouse. After they left, he expressed buyers' remorse due to the fact that he had squandered $600.00. The other illegal told him not to feel so bad about $600.00, he himself had been suckered for something like $10,000.00

Wow. That man must have really needed some "quality time".

In other words, he got rolled while he was drunk and lost every cent he was fool enough to enter a jezebels den with on his person.

[ilbegone]

In other words, he got rolled while he was drunk and lost every cent he was fool enough to enter a jezebels den with on his person.

Liquor probably had quite a bit to do with much of that days' adventure.

I don't know how widespread it is anymore, but quite a few illegals used to carry all their money in a shirt pocket when they moved around and didn't have all the financial service resources they do now. It might have been risky, but no sense burying money in a mayonnaise jar if you might not be back for a year if ever. And, I certainly wouldn't leave anything anywhere in a motel or flop house I really wanted to keep.

[Twoller]

The rats are working their way into law enforcement. We have to know exactly what this cockroach's activities in law enforcement were. What arrests did he make? What tickets did he issue?

[Ayatollahgondola]

This guy is probably being sacrificed as a propaganda ploy for the open borders/amnesty lobby. The're going to hold him up as an example of a good, cop, good family man, taxpayer, who nobody in town has a complaint with. And look at who will be coming to his defense....townfolk in a far away land that has no inkling of the real problems caused by illegals in places like LA, Santa Ana, San Diego, etc.
There's gonna be sobbing, anger, and screams for "reforms"

And who loses here? one person who doesn't have status...yet anyway. He's a sacrifice that the OBL will not miss, or even think about in a few months

[ilbegone]

The rats are working their way into law enforcement. We have to know exactly what this cockroach's activities in law enforcement were. What arrests did he make? What tickets did he issue?

This guy is probably being sacrificed as a propaganda ploy for the open borders/amnesty lobby. The're going to hold him up as an example of a good, cop, good family man, taxpayer, who nobody in town has a complaint with. And look at who will be coming to his defense....townfolk in a far away land that has no inkling of the real problems caused by illegals in places like LA, Santa Ana, San Diego, etc.
There's gonna be sobbing, anger, and screams for "reforms"

And who loses here? one person who doesn't have status...yet anyway. He's a sacrifice that the OBL will not miss, or even think about in a few months


This is all the information i have for this guy, everything else I found is the same:

The passport fraud case is similar to one involving a Mexican national who took the identity of a dead cousin who was a U.S. citizen in order to become a Milwaukee police officer. Oscar Ayala-Cornejo was deported to Mexico in 2007. http://hosted2.ap.org/txdam/54828a5e8d9d48b7ba8b94ba38a9ef22/Article_2011-04-22-Illegal%20Immigrant-Officer/id-3f68153889eb4787b35ad01da1d82e10

Mora-Lopez had been employed as an Anchorage police officer since 2005 under the name Rafael Espinoza. He was arrested Thursday, April 21, 2011, after federal and state authorities searched his home and found documents confirming his true identity. http://federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=110&sid=2356419

"At this time, we have no reason to believe, from what we know so far, that this gentleman or this officer's good work for APD has in any way been compromised or questioned," Skidmore said.

U.S. Magistrate John D. Roberts set bond at $50,000, and ordered Mora-Lopez to home-confinement and electronic monitoring. His defense attorney told the magistrate that Mora-Lopez has a wife and child in Alaska and has close ties to Anchorage, where he has lived since the late 1980s.
"He's not going anywhere," Dayan said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/23/rafael-espinoza-popular-c_n_852852.html

There seems to be no word about his childhood, how old he was when he entered the US, the rest of his background. He might not even speak Spanish.

This again points to who the real culprits are - American politicians who refuse to fund and enforce immigration law, and American employers who create the draw for illegal aliens to come here. Yet twoller calls someone he has no knowledge of or even much information about a "cockroach", with the assumption that the man is a crooked cop, and Ayatolla is right that in this person the real problem of mass migration will be diverted to a question of "social justice" rather than enforcing immigration law.

This guy is shoved in our face by the media rather than the hundreds of cockroach members of congress and presidents who, since the 1986 amnesty, have been derelict in enforcing immigration law.

The double tragedy is that if he was brought to the US as a child, he really doesn't belong to either country. Give him citizenship, and it subverts the system beyond illegal entry and identity theft; deport him, it may be to a country which he doesn't know and in which he will be rejected because he is Americanized.

[Twoller]

This guy is probably being sacrificed as a propaganda ploy for the open borders/amnesty lobby. The're going to hold him up as an example of a good, cop, good family man, taxpayer, who nobody in town has a complaint with. ...

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You are still assuming that the guy was a good cop. What was his record? What arrests did he make? What tickets did he issue?

He was a criminal who had no business in law enforcement. He was not even a citizen. We should have additional laws against illegals who find employment in government positions, especially law enforcement. The guy needs to go to jail for a long time. Think of all the cops who do wind up in jail, does this rat deserve any less?

[Ayatollahgondola]

You are still assuming that the guy was a good cop. What was his record? What arrests did he make? What tickets did he issue?

He was a criminal who had no business in law enforcement. He was not even a citizen. We should have additional laws against illegals who find employment in government positions, especially law enforcement. The guy needs to go to jail for a long time. Think of all the cops who do wind up in jail, does this rat deserve any less?

If my suspicions prove true, they will find him an otherwise good cop. If he was crooked in other ways too, he's not much good to them.
Does he deserve any less? god no..he's a fraud and a con at the root. To overlook that is to belittle everyone who took the proper path, including those who spent two or more years in college as opposed to those who bought something from an on-line diploma mill

[ilbegone]

You are still assuming that the guy was a good cop. What was his record? What arrests did he make? What tickets did he issue?

He was a criminal who had no business in law enforcement. He was not even a citizen. We should have additional laws against illegals who find employment in government positions, especially law enforcement. The guy needs to go to jail for a long time. Think of all the cops who do wind up in jail, does this rat deserve any less?

You're still assuming the man is a total, unmitigated, gaping asshole.

There is no information except for:

His employer says he did an exemplary job as an officer, but lied to get hired.

He did commit identity fraud to get a job.

He used a false identity attempting to get a passport.

He has a family in Anchorage.

He's around 50 years old.

He is a Mexican citizen apparently by birth.

There is nothing else. No background history, nothing to indicate his age at entry.

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So, now you have another mission in addition to going to Texas to interrogate the Valdez family and to Florida to do the same with the white woman with Cuban ancestry and the adopted kid from Mexico - You now need to go to Anchorage and harass every watch commander who comes on duty about Rafael Mora Lopez about his employment record, the arrests he made, and the tickets he wrote.

And you can have fun stalking his family while you're at it.

[Ayatollahgondola]

You're still assuming the man is a total, unmitigated, gaping asshole.

There is no information except for:

His employer says he did an exemplary job as an officer, but lied to get hired.

He did commit identity fraud to get a job.

He used a false identity attempting to get a passport.

He has a family in Anchorage.

He's around 50 years old.

He is a Mexican citizen apparently by birth.

There is nothing else. No background history, nothing to indicate his age at entry.

OK, while I'm not one too quick to condemn usually, I will say that there is an underlying, presumed attitude in America, of the police being total, unmitigated, gaping asshole(s):D
I don't necessarily subscribe to it, but I think it's at least an arguable point that you'd find prevalent

[ilbegone]

Ok, you got me.:eek:

I have quite often expressed my belief that I tend to prejudge police officers as lying, sadistic, ego bloated jerks.

I didn't used to think so.

Once upon a time I believed that Rodney King brought all that beating on himself. However, during a subsequent bad period in my life, having had an unprovoked experience out of the blue by an officer who hadn't seen me for more than a second before he dispensed a "lesson", and now knowing the difference between understanding reality derived of presence versus the Alice in Wonderland creative fiction which comprises so many police reports and the manner in which they go about their work with "subjects", I now believe that most are
total, unmitigated, gaping asshole(s)

looking for someone to shit on.

But that was not the point of my tirade towards twoller. I've told him more than once if he and his buddies ever showed up on my porch with the blanket "hunt them down and throw them out" Spanish Inquisition approach to to the problem of illegal immigration, they would receive a certain lesson as to why they should be a little more circumspect.

[Ayatollahgondola]

Ok, you got me.:eek:

I have quite often expressed my belief that I tend to prejudge police officers as lying, sadistic, ego bloated jerks.

I didn't used to think so.

Once upon a time I believed that Rodney King brought all that beating on himself. However, during a subsequent bad period in my life, having had an unprovoked experience out of the blue by an officer who hadn't seen me for more than a second before he dispensed a "lesson", and now knowing the difference between understanding reality derived of presence versus the Alice in Wonderland creative fiction which comprises so many police reports and the manner in which they go about their work with "subjects", I now believe that most are

looking for someone to shit on.

But that was not the point of my tirade towards twoller. I've told him more than once if he and his buddies ever showed up on my porch with the blanket "hunt them down and throw them out" Spanish Inquisition approach to to the problem of illegal immigration, they would receive a certain lesson as to why they should be a little more circumspect.

Yes, we're all far from perfect in our pursuits here, but at least we're here, and we agree on enough to be here attempting something together.

[Twoller]

If my suspicions prove true, they will find him an otherwise good cop. If he was crooked in other ways too, he's not much good to them.
Does he deserve any less? god no..he's a fraud and a con at the root. To overlook that is to belittle everyone who took the proper path, including those who spent two or more years in college as opposed to those who bought something from an on-line diploma mill

I can't believe you would be so naive. Here we are struggling to deport illegals who have commited some other crime besides being here at all, and now we have one of these scumbags actually finding their way into law enforcement. How can we beg for enforcing against the simple presence of illegals if we can't be more outraged by one of these rats finding their way into uniformed service? Do I have to remind you that twice now we have found illegals being trafficked posing as uniformed military?

Chinese man arrested for creating fake Army unit in scam (http://www.saveourstate.info/showthread.php?t=3813)

13 Illegals Caught Wearing US Marine Uniforms (http://www.saveourstate.info/showthread.php?t=3629&highlight=uniform)

We need to bring the boot heel down hard on this guy and if laws aren't in place to deal with this kind of crap, we need to write them. He needs to do some long hard time for trying to pass himself off as fit for law enforcement.

Nobody who is not a US citizen should be allowed in law enforcement in the US. Nobody.

[Ayatollahgondola]

I can't believe you would be so naive. .

:eek: and :confused:

How does my theorizing the possible motives and practices of the open borders lobby indicate naivete' to you?

[ilbegone]

I can't believe you would be so naive. Here we are struggling to deport illegals who have commited some other crime besides being here at all, and now we have one of these scumbags actually finding their way into law enforcement. How can we beg for enforcing against the simple presence of illegals if we can't be more outraged by one of these rats finding their way into uniformed service?

We need to bring the boot heel down hard on this guy and if laws aren't in place to deal with this kind of crap, we need to write them. He needs to do some long hard time for trying to pass himself off as fit for law enforcement.

Nobody who is not a US citizen should be allowed in law enforcement in the US. Nobody.

Actually, if anyone should be tied to a stake and have a match applied to gasoline soaked wood piled around their legs, it would be the politicians who made it possible and those who hired him. Simple as that.

According to a co worker, Rafael Mora Lopez has been in the US about thirty years, which makes him of an age of reason at entry. So, if there were a scenario where Twoller could hurl flaming projectiles at Mora while Mora was running for his life while screaming like a little girl back across the Mexican border, that's one thing. If he had been brought here as a small child, that's an entirely different proposition in my mind.

This is what the Anchorage police administration and the feds are saying:

Anchorage police say Mora-Lopez, who is actually a Mexican citizen, had been working with the Anchorage Police Department as Rafael Espinoza since May of 2005.

The Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office would not say how long Mora-Lopez had been in Alaska or the U.S., or how long he had been using Espinoza’s name, saying that many details would not come out until trial because it is an ongoing investigation.

http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-apd-officer-false-passport-application-20110422,0,1192462.story

Posts in a cop forum from an Anchorage cop who knew and worked with Mora Lopez:


The guy was a good cop and had high marks. He had been here in the U.S. for 30 years and worked for the city for the past 13 years (bus driver prior)...

...Again he had been here for about 30 years., did you read the article? I have caught at least one person being booked and fingerprinted by DOC who was not the assumed person but made it all the way through and released. He provided all the documents and there were NO fingerprints on file to compare with. If you think he is the only immigrant (meaning MX and non-MX) that has done so/ or is doing then you your head is in the sand. It really isn't that hard. But then again we aren't experts like you I guess.
As with immigration we have a lot of non-Mexican illegals living here who I believe walk right past you guys down south since they look like any other anglo and don't stick out...

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(a quote from someone else)[[[...And if someone fails the polygraph they are screwed for future jobs.....even though they might have nothing wrong. That's why I don't like it for jobs...]]]

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I have no clue why depts. still use that damn thing. We should do the whole battery to the testicles way IMHO.

As for this guy I worked side by side with him and I trusted my life with him then and I would still do so now. He is screwed but I will say I hope the best for him.

http://forums.officer.com/forums/showthread.php?164181-Police-Officer-is-relieved-of-duty-after-he-is-discovered-to-be-a-Mexican-citizen.&

[Twoller]

If my suspicions prove true, they will find him an otherwise good cop. If he was crooked in other ways too, he's not much good to them.
Does he deserve any less? god no..he's a fraud and a con at the root. To overlook that is to belittle everyone who took the proper path, including those who spent two or more years in college as opposed to those who bought something from an on-line diploma mill

:eek: and :confused:

How does my theorizing the possible motives and practices of the open borders lobby indicate naivete' to you?

Of course the simple act of theorizing is not the problem, but your conclusions. You insist that this illegal will be found to be a "good cop". That's not naive, just absurd. Obviously he is not anything like a good cop. And it is painfully naive to imagine an illegal immigrant, in a nation infected with illegal immigrants has been anything like a good cop. How many illegal immigrants has this guy let pass for who knows what? Who cares what they find, we know better.

You also appear to take a permissive atitude towards the requirements of law enforcement. Does "everyone who took the proper path" in the pursuit of a position in law enforcement include anyone who is not a US citizen?

[Ayatollahgondola]

Of course the simple act of theorizing is not the problem, but your conclusions. You insist that this illegal will be found to be a "good cop". That's not naive, just absurd. Obviously he is not anything like a good cop. And it is painfully naive to imagine an illegal immigrant, in a nation infected with illegal immigrants has been anything like a good cop. How many illegal immigrants has this guy let pass for who knows what? Who cares what they find, we know better.

You also appear to take a permissive atitude towards the requirements of law enforcement. Does "everyone who took the proper path" in the pursuit of a position in law enforcement include anyone who is not a US citizen?

Twoller...uh.....ayyy...:(

You're missing what I'm saying about the reason I believe he will be used as an example for the open borders logic, not what I think about him, because what I think about him is not important to them. What's important to them is good PR. I'm not holding this guy out to be a good cop; I think THEY will.

Never mind Twoller. Let's let this one go

[Twoller]

Twoller...uh.....ayyy...:(

....

Never mind Twoller. Let's let this one go

I'm done.

But I'll say it again, nobody but US citizens have any business being in law enforcement and we should have laws severely penalizing anyone attempting positions in uniform who is not a US citizen and especially illegal immigrants.

We need to keep track of what happens to this guy. An example needs to be made.

[ilbegone]

I'm done.

But I'll say it again, nobody but US citizens have any business being in law enforcement and we should have laws severely penalizing anyone attempting positions in uniform who is not a US citizen and especially illegal immigrants.

We need to keep track of what happens to this guy. An example needs to be made.

Such an example will never be made so long as there is not an example made of politicians who refuse to fund and enforce immigration law and employers who hire illegals.

Number one is Obama. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security (Ice, CBP, ETC) all report directly to him. Congress can fund them fully and make all the immigration legislation the most hardcore anti illegal immigration advocate could desire, but until Obama quits obstructing what those departments are mandated by law to do, it won't get done.

The illegals might be right in front of you, but again, it's American politicians and American employers in the shadows who are shoving them up your ass.

[Twoller]

This is not the first time we have snagged one of these rats. From 2007 ...

Immigrant Breaks Law to Become Cop
(http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8T38VN03&show_article=1&catnum=0)

[ilbegone]

This is not the first time we have snagged one of these rats. From 2007 ...

Immigrant Breaks Law to Become Cop
(http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8T38VN03&show_article=1&catnum=0)

Just who includes "we"?

The illegals might be right in front of you, but again, it's American politicians and American employers in the shadows who are shoving them up your ass.

Until some political ass is severely spanked concerning illegal immigration nothing is going to change. Bitching about the problem is essentially meaningless and gets lost in the rest of the noise. What are you going to do to make change?