CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — The owner of a Morgantown-based construction company has admitted to harboring illegal aliens and tax fraud.
Federal prosecutors said Hector Reyes, 40, owner of A&M Homes, admitted to hiring and harboring illegal aliens to work for his company using other people’s social security numbers.
Reyes admitted to creating fake driver’s licenses and immigration forms to give to state Division of Labor inspectors while using other people’s social security numbers for tax purposes. Officials also stated that the social security numbers used by Reyes included numbers that belonged to people who were dead.
Reyes faces up to 10 years in prison for the harboring charge and up to three years for the tax interference charge.
The Department of Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations, and the Social Security Administration-Office of Inspector General investigated this case.
Reyes’ arrest comes as a part of Operation Take Back America, which is described as a nationwide initiative to address immigration-related crime, federal authorities said.
Story by Mike Nolting, WAJR