United States v. Fausto Morales Santos

WOLLMAN, Chief Judge.

Fausto Morales Santos, a Mexican national, was sentenced to thirty-three months in prison and two years of supervised release after his conviction by a jury on five counts stemming from his production and sale of false identification documents in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028.1 He appeals both his conviction and his sentence.

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Santos was arrested on April 15, 1999, when police executed a search warrant for an apartment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Santos and another man were actively engaged in the production of a variety of false identification documents, including…