Illegal immigrant gets 6 years for forging IDs in Hamilton

Carolyn Hileman* | April 21, 2007

HAMILTON — An illegal immigrant believed to have made and sold fake identification cards as a key player in a local immigration fraud scheme has been sentenced to six years in prison. Ernesto Escalante-Bartolon, 29, of Hamilton pleaded guilty in March to 10 felonies: six forgery counts, three counts of tampering with government records, and one of identity theft. A Butler County Common Pleas judge sentenced the man Wednesday to close an investigation the sheriff’s office began last year. In a December sting, deputies unearthed thousands of fake ID cards they said would be worth $600,000 on the street. Escalante-Bartolon had been handing out business cards advertising the phony documents, authorities said.

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