Who is the other Alianiss Nunez Morales?

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | February 23, 2008

Authorities say the woman charged with killing four children in a fatal bus crash is living in the country illegally and using someone else’s identity. They did not identify the other Alianiss Nunez Morales. But documents indicate there’s a woman in Connecticut of the same age with the same uncommon name. She’s apparently from Puerto Rico, a leading source of stolen identities. Law enforcement officials have searched this trailer home in Minneota in connection with a fatal school bus accident last Tuesday on Highway 23 near Cottonwood. The van driver charged with hitting the bus is believed to have lived in the trailer. Minneota Police Chief Eric Johnson says authorities searched the trailer Friday evening. The van driver, who identifies herself as Alianiss Nunez Morales, has been charged with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide. Federal immigration officials believe Morales is in the U.S. illegally and using a fake identity. (MPR Photo/Mark Steil) St. Paul, Minn. — A public records search turned up a 23-year-old woman named Alianiss Nunez Morales in Chester, Connecticut. The records indicate her Social Security card was issued in Puerto Rico. Alianiss is not a common name. Two Spanish linguistics professors contacted for this story say they’ve never heard of it. They say it could be a name created by parents. Van driverFriday the prosecutor in the Cottonwood case said immigration officials went to Puerto Rico to talk to the grandmother of a person named Alianiss Nunez Morales. They showed her a mug shot of the woman now sitting in the Lyon County jail. “He showed me an ID with the picture of a dark woman with dark eyes,” says the grandmother, Alejandrina Correra. “And he asked me if that was Alianiss, and I said, ‘No, that’s not Alianiss. Alianiss is blonde with green eyes.’” Correra told Minnesota Public Radio she raised Alianiss from the age of 1 after her parents died. Correra doesn’t know where her granddaughter lives, only that she moved to the continental U.S. with her two daughters and a friend. She doesn’t know her granddaughter’s phone number and doesn’t have a way to make contact. The grandmother said the investigator who came to her door said Alianiss had apparently lost some documents and that another person used them. The Web site MySpace has a page belonging to an Alianiss Nunez who lives in the same Connecticut town, Chester. She lists her age as 23 and describes herself as a single mom from Puerto Rico who likes soap operas. In photographs, the woman partially fits the grandmother’s description. Her eyes are green, but her hair is brown, not blond. The page is decorated with pink fairies. This Alianiss says she wants to give her two children opportunities she never had. We received no response to several emails to the MySpace account. Outside of Puerto Rico, there is no working listed phone number for Alianiss Morales in the U.S. Authorities won’t say if there’s any link between the Alianiss in Connecticut and the woman who drove a mini-van into the school bus in southwestern Minnesota on Tuesday. That woman told officers she lives in a Minneota trailer and is originally from Mexico. She was driving without a license. Authorities say she has been uncooperative in revealing her true identity. Share This

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