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Attempted Illegal Entry into the United States
Source staff
December 3, 2021
St. Croix, USVI - U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that three Indian nationals appeared on December 2, 2021, before Magistrate Court Judge George W. Cannon, Jr. for a preliminary hearing on criminal charges related to their alleged attempted illegal entry into the United States.

Probable cause was found and the defendants were bound over to the District Court for further proceedings.

According to court documents, on November 24, 2021, at the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport on St. Croix, Krishnaben Patel, age 25, Nikunjkumar Patel, age 27, and Ashokkumar Patel, age 39, presented themselves to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers for inspection to board Spirit Airlines Flight #449 from St. Croix to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

A systems check revealed that their Florida driver's licenses were not legally issued and were deemed fraudulent.

Further inspection revealed that in August 2019, the three were previously detained by CBP in Tecate, California, and were processed for expedited removal.

They were subsequently removed from the United States to India.

As a result, the Patels were charged by criminal complaint with Reentry by an Alien After
Removal and Possession and Use of Fraudulent Documents.

If convicted, the Patels face up to a potential 10 years in prison and subsequent deportation.

A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations are investigating the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel H. Huston is prosecuting the case.

U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced an unidentified Jamaican man, who was charged as "John Doe," to four years and three months in federal prison for obstructing his deportation from the United States.

A federal jury had found Doe guilty on February 15, 2022.

According to testimony and evidence presented at trial, Doe was first encountered by immigration authorities in January 1985 in Miami when he attempted to enter the United States from Jamaica by claiming to be a U.S. citizen named Freddie Davis.

When authorities determined that he was not a U.S. citizen, he was allowed to voluntarily return to Jamaica.

Doe attempted to enter the country again the next month in West Palm Beach, claiming to be a citizen of the Bahamas and using a fraudulent Bahamian passport in the name of Joseph Gordon.

This ruse was discovered, and he was deported to Jamaica.

Sometime later, at an unknown place and time, Doe successfully entered the United States illegally.

He was encountered by immigration authorities in Dallas in September 1988, after serving a prison sentence.

Doe said then that his name was Joseph Gordon and at first said that he was a U.S. citizen born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, but later said that he was a citizen of the Bahamas.

An immigration judge subsequently ordered him to be deported to Jamaica, but he was not deported at that time.

In June 2018, after completing a prison sentence in Florida, Doe was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Miami, this time using the name Ricardo Jones, the name under which he was convicted.

Because Doe's true identity could not conclusively be determined, the Jamaican authorities told ICE they needed more information to verify that he was a Jamaican citizen.

Over the next several months, ICE and Jamaican authorities attempted to determine Doe's true identity but were unsuccessful.

Doe was repeatedly warned that he could be prosecuted if he continued to obstruct his deportation.

On January 18, 2019, Doe was scheduled for an interview with the Jamaican consulate, but he refused to speak to them. When an ICE officer asked him his name, he responded "Only God knows my name." Later that month, Doe was transferred to ICE custody in Baker County.

In March 2019, ICE again attempted to obtain a travel document to deport Doe to Jamaica.

The Jamaican consulate once again informed ICE that it could not issue a travel document for Doe, because there was no conclusive evidence that Doe was a citizen of Jamaica.

ICE scheduled Doe for a phone interview with the Jamaican consulate on April 9, 2019, but he refused to leave his dormitory for the interview.

Another interview was scheduled for April 17, 2019, Doe went but refused to provide any information.

He advised that his name was Ricardo Jones but would not provide any other information.

On June 20 and July 23, 2019, ICE conducted recorded interviews of Doe to again attempt to obtain biographical information that might allow him to be identified.

During these interviews, after stating that his name was Freddie Davis, Doe refused to provide any other information, saying that ICE already had all of the information they needed.

In addition to the identities discussed above, Doe has also used the names Dave Davis, Patrick Melbourne, Frank Douglas, and Danny Brooks while he has been illegally present in the United States.

"This individual has a violent and egregious criminal history of non-compliance with many U.S. laws," said ERO Miami Field Office Director Garrett Ripa. "His extensive criminal past is a threat to public safety.

The men and women of ERO Miami will continue to focus on protecting our nation against individuals who are a threat to our communities."

This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations.

It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Arnold B. Corsmeier.

Posted September 25 2023 at 3:35 PM

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