A 61-year-old Methuen man appeared last week in U.S. District Court in Boston after being charged with misuse of a Social Security number and aggravated identity theft.
Victor Urena-Almanzar, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, made his first appearance a week ago Monday in federal court in Boston on May 11.
According to court documents, Urena-Almanzar assumed the identity of a United States citizen and obtained multiple Massachusetts identification cards, as well as a United States passport, in the victim’s name. It is alleged that Urena-Almanzar used the fraudulently obtained United States passport to travel internationally between the United States and the Dominican Republic and to obtain a Massachusetts REAL ID identification card.
In 2001, Urena-Almanzar pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He was also convicted of illegal communication device-related fraud in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in 1995.