Two persons were arrested last week by Boardman police after a man attempted to obtain an Ohio driver’s license using a fake documents at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) site in the Greater Boardman Plaza.
      The man charged in the case is an illegal alien and Det. Greg Stepuk said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been notified.
      A phoney social security card, birth certificate from Puerto Rico and a utility bill were displayed in an attempt to get the driver’s license, a BMV employee told Ptl. Brittany Christensen.
      Initially, suspects police spoke with were identified as Louise Virginia Martinez and Soliman Exel Cruz Perez.
      Officer Christensen that Martinez spoke to police on behalf of Cruz Perez. She told police the Cruz Perez did not speak English and he had just moved to the United States from Puerto Rico.
      Cruz Perez was then placed into handcuffs until his identity could be verified, and prior to being searched Martinez took possession of his wallet and began flipping through it.
      While doing so, police saw what they believed to be a driver’s license that Martinez had concealed in her purse, Officer Christensen said, adding at the request of law enforcement, Martinez unzipped her purse and pulled out a New York driver’s license with a picture that resembled Cruz Perez.
      “However, the name on the identification was Jeancarlos Almonte Alvarez,” Ptl. Christensen said.
      Martinez told police she had no knowledge of why there were two, different names that were provided for the man who had been positively identified as Alvarez.
      “Martinez said she met [Alvarez] a few months ago on Facebook and they started dating,” Officer Christensen said, adding that the car the pair arrived at the BMV belonged to Alvarez.
      When identifying the vehicle, Martinez pointed to a Toyota Rav-4, however Sgt. Daryn Tallman pushed a key fob found in Alvarez’s possession and the alarm went off on a Toyota Tundra bearing an Ohio registration. A registration check showed the Tundra was registered to a Jean C. Almonte Alvarez, of 744 East Indianola Ave., Youngstown, Oh.
      Police asked Alvarez who Soliman Exel Cruz Perez is, and Alvarez replied that he didn’t know, claiming he was “just trying to get documents so he could continue at his construction job.”
      After telling police he was actually born in the Dominican Republic, and not Puerto Rico, he stopped speaking with law enforcement “until he had a lawyer.”
      Martinez, 27, of 154 Washington St., #1, Peabody, Mass. and Alvarez, 30, who said he lives at 744 East Indianola Ave. were placed under arrest on a charge of identity fraud and lodged into the Mahoning County Jail.
      Officer Christensen said “the fake documents provided to the BMV, as well as Alvarez’s New York driver’s license” were seized by police.
      Records of the Mahoning County Auditor’s Office show the home at 744 East Indianola is owned by Inmar Lopez Tobar and Mildred Salguero Tobar, whose taxpayer’s address is 3520 Hillman St., Youngstown, Oh. According to the auditor’s office the property is $889.80 delinquent in the payment of property taxes.