Miami Pastor, Accomplice Ran Illegal Immigration Scheme
The authorities of Miami charged the pastor of a Spanish -speaking church and an accomplice in what seems to be a system of fraudulent immigration services after having pretended to fraud a dozen victims.
The Miami-Dade sheriff office (MDSO) announcement The arrests of Thursday by Nelson David Ochoa-Vasquez, 46, and Ismer Gonzalez, 44, for organized fraud and large flight, and an additional accusation of practicing the law without license for Gonzalez.
The officials said that a preliminary investigation revealed that Cohoa-Vasquez, Pasteur de la Iglesia de Dios Jireh, “would have” used his position to introduce victims without distrust “in search of a legal opinion to put them in place with Gonzalez, who claimed to be” being an immigration lawyer “without being really one.
The alleged victims paid an approximate sum of $ 21,000 for the legal services, said MDSO.
The authorities allege that none of the services offered, including assistance in obtaining a work permit and driving licenses, has never been provided.
Investigators have already found at least 16 victims who were reportedly targeted by the pair between April 2024 and January 2025, but suspicious That the additional victims will appear, WSVN reported.
The local point of sale noted that Gonzalez has two mandates in North Carolina for the same crimes, and Ochoa-Vasquez is ironically on immigration.
The two men faced accusations of crime in the second degree and are detained without surety pending a hearing of Nebbia, where they will have to prove that money on deposit did not come from illegal sources.
