Carlos Jose Abreu, a native of the Dominican Republic, assumed the identity of a Puerto Rican man with U.S. citizenship for nearly two decades while committing an array of crimes in the United States, including voting twice in Broward County.
Abreu obtained government documents, filed taxes, was married, helped his spouse gain U.S. citizenship, purchased firearms, received stimulus checks, acquired licenses, got arrested, and opened credit cards and other lines of credit, a prosecutor said in a court filing before his sentencing. He also purchased firearms, rented property, voted in federal elections and even used the stolen identity of the Puerto Rico-born man on his minor children’s birth certificates.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz sentenced Abreu, 46, to five years and five months in prison after he pleaded guilty to federal charges in March that he had falsely registered as a voter under the stolen name of the Puerto Rican man in the 2016 and 2022 federal elections in Broward.
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