n Mario Yuvini Cantarero-Maradiaga, 21, of Willmar, was sentenced to a $50 fine and five years of probation on a felony charge of aggravated forgery.
He was ordered to serve 46 days in jail, and was given credit for 46 days already served, and was ordered to cooperate with agents from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. As part of a plea agreement, misdemeanor charges of giving a false name to a peace officer and for driving without a valid license were dismissed.
He is also known as Edwin Fernando Aponte-Carreras and Mario Cantarero.
The charges were filed after a May 9 incident in Willmar. Around 7:30 a.m. that day, a Willmar police officer saw in the Super America station parking lot a vehicle with which he was familiar through prior contacts. On April 13, the officer had contact with Edwin Fernando Aponte-Carreras and a woman, whom he had advised to get the vehicle registered in Minnesota. The vehicle still had Florida plates.
The officer followed the vehicle to an apartment complex, where he talked to the driver, who said he was not the owner of the car. The man said he didn't have any identification. He gave the name and date of birth of Mario Cantarero, but spoke with long pauses between month, day and year. The officer contacted dispatch and was provided with the Aponte-Carreras name.
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When asked about the different name, Cantarero-Maradiaga said he was working under that name and he just gave the officer his real name. He didn't have a driver's license and was arrested for not having a license and for giving a false name to a peace officer on April 13.
He was taken to the jail, and gave two different birth years, 1987 and 1978, on booking forms.
The officer obtained copies of employment forms signed by a local employment service under the Aponte-Carreras name. Officers contacted the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs enforcement, who placed a hold on Cantarero-Maradiaga.
- Miranda Joy Douvier, 20, of Willmar, was sentenced Monday to a $500 fine and 10 years of probation on a felony charge of second-degree burglary.
She was also ordered to serve 90 days in jail, attend victim-offender mediation and write an apology letter. Judge Michael J. Thompson ordered a 10-year stay of imposition on her sentence, so if she abides by the court conditions, the conviction will be reduced to a misdemeanor.
As part of a plea agreement, the charge was reduced from first-degree burglary and another felony burglary charge and a misdemeanor for fifth-degree assault were dismissed.
The charges were filed after Willmar Police were called on Nov. 2 to an apartment along the 1200 block of 24th Street Northwest. The people there said that Douvier, two other females and one male entered an apartment and that Douvier's ex-boyfriend was there with a woman described as the ex-girlfriend of Douvier's male companion.
The complaint charges that Douvier struck the woman who was with her ex-boyfriend, and that the male who accompanied her struck her ex-boyfriend. Douvier and the others also were responsible for damage in the apartment, ranging from ripping apart the door of a bedroom, smashing dinner plates and wrecking the top of a coffee table, according to the complaint.
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- Adrian Flores-Torres, 36, of Willmar, was sentenced Monday to an additional 175 days in the county jail and ordered to cooperate with agents from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The sentence was issued during a probation violation hearing on a charge of aggravated forgery. He was sentenced in February to a year and a day in jail, which remains stayed, a $50 fine and three years of probation on the charge.
The stay of imposition on Flores-Torres' sentence was revoked, based on probation violations, including that Flores-Torres came back to Willmar after he was deported by ICE officials in March, and that he was ticketed for driving after cancellation on June 8.
The complaint charged that Flores-Torres had obtained an identity card under the name of Jimmy Edwards Escalantes and used the false identity to obtain a job at Jennie-O Turkey Store in Willmar. The defendant had obtained the false identity to avoid paying child support, the complaint charges.
- Rosa Isela Cardoza, 35, of Willmar, entered an Alford plea Friday to a felony charge of check forgery.
As part of a plea agreement, another felony for check forgery will be dismissed and she will be responsible for $1,600 in restitution. The Alford plea means she did not admit to the crime but agreed there was sufficient evidence to prove the elements of the offense. An Alford plea is still recorded as a guilty plea.
Cardoza and Sergio Ramos, 32, of Raymond, were both charged in connection with using stolen checks to swindle $3,200. Ramos has been sentenced to 17 months in prison, which was stayed, a $1,500 fine and 10 years of probation on a felony charge of liability for crimes of another - check forgery.
The charges were filed after two Clara City men reported a check forgery to the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office on Oct. 18. Three checks from a farm account were missing. The men provided affidavits that a total of $3,200 had been swindled with the checks. The men suspected Ramos, a former employee, and his girlfriend, Cardoza, had taken the checks while retrieving Ramos' belongings after he stopped working for the farm.
Police used bank records and surveillance video from a Willmar bank to identify Cardoza and Ramos as the individuals who deposited $1,700 from two checks into an account and cashed the third check for $1,500 in early October. Police also used the surveillance video to identify Cardoza's vehicle, which was used in the drive-through window for one of the transactions. Her ownership of the vehicle was verified with Department of Vehicle Services records.
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She will be sentenced Aug. 20.
