Woman arrested for welfare fraud

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | May 24, 2008

Allegations of welfare fraud and perjury returned a Madera mother and her children into the custody of authorities Friday for a second time in a year. The children are with Child Protective Services while their mother, 28-year-old Nora Yesenia Guillen, is in county jail.

Guillen was arrested after appearing in court Friday morning to answer to drug and child endangerment charges stemming from her previous arrest on July 17, 2007.

In July, eight agents with the valley’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) team arrested Guillen and her mother, 46-year-old Dora Vasquez, at Guillen’s home on Tulare Street in Madera.

Guillen’s five children, ranging in age from toddler to 9 years of age, were taken by CPS and both Guillen and Vasquez were accused of leading a methamphetamine sales operation from the home. The boyfriends of the two women were also arrested.

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