PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – A Honduran national currently serving time for the hit-and-run death of a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Deputy will stay behind bars longer after a federal judge tacked on additional prison time for the identity theft scheme that allowed him to work in the U.S. illegally.
U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven sentenced 35-year-old Juan Ariel Molina-Salles today to two years and one month in federal prison. The sentence stems from charges of aggravated identity theft, falsely representing a Social Security number, and making false claims of U.S. citizenship to secure employment.
Judge Scriven ordered the federal time to run consecutively to the 12-year state sentence Molina-Salles is already serving. That previous sentence was handed down in the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court in Pinellas County for leaving the scene of a crash involving death…