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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- An illegal immigrant charged with identity theft is accused of trying to pass himself off as someone else with legal problems -- a convicted sex offender.


Alejandro Borbonio-Fernandez, 41, was arrested April 27 after he started working in Murfreesboro under the identity of man who was deported after failing to sign up for the sex offender registry.

Anthony Langeland, a senior special agent with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, testified in a Rutherford County General Sessions Court Monday that Borbonio-Fernandez stole the deported man's Social Security number.

Langeland said Borbonio-Fernandez used the Social Security number to obtain a fraudulent resident alien card. The defendant seemed not to realize the card was in the name of a sex offender.

"He said he found the Social Security card in a trash can in South Carolina," Langeland said.

Judge David Loughry transferred the case to a grand jury for a possible indictment. Borbonio-Fernandez remains in custody.