GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Guatemalan national will spend the next few months behind bars for conspiring to sell counterfeit permanent resident cards and Social Security numbers to people living in the United States illegally, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Edgidio Vasquez-Mencho, 41, is the second of three Guatemalan to be sentenced for his part in a scheme to transfer false identification documents to others living in the U.S. without documentation. A federal judge sentenced him to six months in custody.
His co-conspirator Norma Ayala was sentenced to eight months in custody earlier this month.
Feds accuse three of selling counterfeit documents
The investigation into Vasquez-Mencho, Ayala and another person began in 2024. Homeland Security investigators found that the pair, along with co-defendant Rigoberto Vasquez-Vasquez, were making, selling and advertising fake documentation to people who were living in the U.S. illegally. They said it happened on “a number of occasions” in 2024 and 2025 and the group was working in the Grand Rapids area…