Illegal alien arrested delivering U.S. Mail (Verde Independent)

Illegal alien arrested delivering U.S. Mail

Monday, March 16, 2009

A Yavapai Sheriff's deputy was on routine patrol Thursday afternoon near Kimberley Way and Cornville Road in Rimrock when he spotted a 2001 silver Nissan operated in a suspicious manner.

The officer noticed that the vehicle had a "U.S. Mail" magnet fastened on the rear.

After the deputy pulled over the vehicle, the driver allegedly gave a false name.

The deputy, certified under the Immigration and Customs 287G provision, pursued the inconsistencies and the immigration status with the driver.

He identified the man as 35-year-old Sigifredo Parra-Reyes and found that he was in this country illegally from Mexico.

The passenger was the vehicle's registered owner, Sybil Maria Rogers, 35, of Rimrock.

Rogers, who was doing contract postal delivery, told the deputy that she was ill and had been letting her boyfriend, Parra-Reyes drive while she delivered the mail.

She was released without charges.

Parra-Reyes was booked into the Camp Verde Jail, charged with giving false information to a law enforcement officer and taking the identity of another.

An ICE detainer was placed on him.

A records check shows that he had been deported twice before.

One of the deportations was in 2002 after being convicted of drug trafficking charges.