CEDAR RAPIDS – A Guatemalan alien living in Belmond who possessed a fraudulent permanent resident card will be taking long siestas behind bars in a federal prison.
Rodolfo Duran-Matul (pictured at top), age 27, a citizen of Guatemala residing in Belmond, Iowa, received the prison term after an October 8, 2024, guilty plea to one count of unlawful possession of an identification document.
In a plea agreement, Duran-Matul admitted he had previously been deported from the United States and illegally reentered the United States without the permission of the United States government. Duran-Matul was previously deported in August 2018.
Duran-Matul also admitted that in August 2024, when he was arrested on state charges, he possessed a fraudulent permanent resident card (“green card”) bearing his name and photograph. The number on the green card was assigned to someone else. Permanent resident cards are documents prescribed by statute or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States. As an alien unlawfully in the United States, Duran-Matul was not authorized to work in the United States.
Duran-Matul was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams. Duran-Matul was sentenced to 85 days’ imprisonment. He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Duran-Matul is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be turned over to immigration officials.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel C. Tvedt and investigated by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations.
2 thoughts on “Guatemalan alien living in Belmond with fake green card gets 85 days in prison”
They should just execute him, as a warning to others.
You should probably move to Russia where they do things like that. Of course with trump spending the next four years in the WH rather than prison, we may start to see public executions of people he doesn’t want living in America.