Mexican Woman In Us Illegally Charged With Faking Her Own Ice ‘kidnapping’

A Mexican forbidden alien surviving successful Los Angeles was charged pinch orchestrating her ain clone ICE "kidnapping" to make sympathy and solicit donations, nan Justice Department announced Thursday.

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, 41, a resident of South Los Angeles, was charged pinch conspiracy and making mendacious statements to national officers, nan DOJ said.

Calderon had been surviving successful nan U.S. based connected a national rule enforcement parole that expired successful 2023. She is successful national custody aft she allegedly faked her kidnapping.

This comes aft local outlet KTLA reported connected a news convention held by Calderon’s "loved ones and attorneys," who claimed she had been "kidnapped" by uniformed men successful unmarked cars June 25.

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According to an affidavit revenge successful a criminal title against Mexican forbidden Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an HSI interrogator wished these photos provided to investigators were apt "created to make it look arsenic if Calderon was successful custody and that she had been mistreated while there." (US Department of Justice)

The outlet reported that a female identified arsenic an lawyer named Stephano Medina claimed Calderon was cornered successful a Jack successful nan Box parking batch successful Los Angeles by men who did not place themselves but were perchance bounty hunters. Medina claimed Calderon was taken to nan separator and presented to an "ICE staffer," who demanded she motion self-deportation paperwork.

Medina said that erstwhile Calderon refused to motion nan paperwork, she was taken to a storage until she agreed to motion nan document.

Fox News Digital obtained a transcript of nan criminal title against Calderon, which was revenge successful nan U.S. District Court for nan Central District of California. An affidavit revenge pinch nan title alleges that Calderon and others "planned a hoax kidnapping" for their benefit, "including their ain pecuniary gain."

The affidavit said that Calderon’s girl group up a GoFundMe page to raise $4,500 aft her mother was "taken by masked men successful an unmarked vehicle."

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According to an affidavit included successful a criminal title against Calderon, an HSI interrogator reviewed surveillance footage that showed her "walking towards a parked metallic Nissan sedan. Calderon placed nan container she was carrying successful nan backmost spot of nan Nissan, past opened nan rider car doorway and sewage into nan car. I person watched this video, and Calderon is again stepping astatine a normal pace, and does not look to beryllium successful immoderate distress." (US Department of Justice)

The girl revenge a missing personification report pinch nan Los Angeles Police Department, which notified Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) of Calderon’s expected kidnapping.

HSI wished Calderon was not successful DHS custody and, retired of interest for her safety, nan agency launched its ain investigation to find her. During nan investigation, HSI noticed respective irregularities, including that nan telephone calls to loved ones that Calderon had supposedly made via borrowed phones were made from her compartment phone, intentionally masked to look arsenic an chartless number.

According to nan affidavit, video surveillance of Calderon’s alleged forced abduction further showed her calmly leaving nan Jack successful nan Box parking batch and getting into a adjacent sedan. Despite nan video showing a marked LAPD car successful nan vicinity, Calderon did not make immoderate attempts to alert officers that she was successful danger.

The affidavit states that "when confronted pinch existent accusation that contradicted their kidnapping story," Calderon and others lied to national agents and "attempted to thwart rule enforcement efforts" by keeping her whereabouts from rule enforcement.

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According to an affidavit included successful nan criminal title against Calderon, this photo, which nan affidavit says appears to show Calderon connected nan left, was taken astatine astir 4:40 p.m. astatine nan Bakersfield, California, shopping promenade while she was supposedly missing, starring investigators to fishy nan kidnapping was a hoax. (Justice Department)

According to a DOJ statement, HSI agents tracked Calderon down July 5 successful a shopping plaza parking batch successful Bakersfield, California. The connection said Calderon continued to declare she was taken by masked men and held successful custody pinch others.

She is successful U.S. migration custody and is facing a maximum condemnation of 5 years successful national situation for conspiracy and up to 5 years for mendacious statements if convicted of nan charges.   

Commenting connected nan charges, U.S. Attorney for nan Central District of California Bill Essayli thanked HSI and "all national agents facing unprecedented levels of assaults" for "providing cool heads and professionalism during these difficult times."

Essayli said "dangerous rhetoric that ICE agents are ‘kidnapping’ forbidden immigrants is being recklessly peddled by politicians and echoed successful nan media to inflame nan nationalist and discredit our courageous national agents."  

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HSI Los Angeles Special Agent successful Charge Eddy Wang besides decried nan scheme, saying, "My agency invested valuable clip and resources moving this alleged kidnapping investigation only to observe that it was a hoax.

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"Diverting captious rule enforcement resources is not only reckless and irresponsible, but it besides endangers nan community," Wang added.  "The existent costs of a fraud for illustration this is nan amount of fentanyl not seized, kid predators not removed from nan communities and quality trafficking victims not rescued because rule enforcement redirected resources to retrieve nan defendant.

"We want to guarantee nan nationalist that allegations of criminal activity will beryllium thoroughly investigated by HSI and our rule enforcement partners and that those who prosecute successful fraud and deception will beryllium prosecuted to nan fullest grade of nan law."