According to federal authorities, agents in Orange County and Long Beach, California, arrested four illegal aliens facing federal charges for purportedly using stolen Social Security numbers to rack up tens of thousands of dollars in retail credit card debt before filing for bankruptcy to wipe out the balances.
One of the defendants, Abel Ávila Martínez, 48, of Buena Park, is a Mexican national who was deported from the United States in 1999. The feds say that he used fraudulent Social Security numbers to rack up thousands of dollars in debt, per the California Post.
Early Thursday morning, federal agents reportedly used high-flying drones to track Martínez from his home to a car parked in an Orange County neighborhood. As he entered the vehicle, roughly 20 agents in tactical gear blocked the vehicle and called for him to surrender…