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By
Gina Tabonares
Variety News Staff
A CHINESE national
who was earlier charged and deported for illegally entering the United
States twice was re-indicted yesterday for repeating the offense.
A Guam District Court grand jury charged Hui Fang Ling yesterday with
improper entry by alien for entering a U.S. territory without passing
through the examination and inspection of immigration officers on Aug.
24, 2005.
Prior to this, Ling reportedly committed the first offense of improper
entry on Dec. 5, 2003.
On Feb. 27, 2004, she reportedly entered the U.S. again that resulted
in her first indictment on Nov. 9, 2005.
She is now under the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for detention.
During her initial appearance and arraignment on April 23, 2007, Ling
waived the reading of her indictment and entered a not guilty plea to
the charges.
The court appointed Atty. Jay Arriola to represent her and ordered the
defendant to return for her criminal trial setting on June 19 at 9:30
a.m.
Guilty
In other news, three Chinese nationals who were arrested last month for
using fake passports entered into a plea agreement and admitted that they
altered their passport to gain entry to the United States.
They are Yingshu Li a.k.a. Ouck Ja Sin, 40, Rizi Chi a.k.a. Kyungae Kim,
47, and Li Hua Piao a.k.a. Mi Ja Lee, 40.
The three arrived on Guam on March 29, 2007 and presented false and altered
passports to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector.
They told the court that they got the altered passports while in Malaysia
where they gave a Korean male 5,000 China Yuan or approximately $600 for
the fake document.
The false use of a passport is a federal felony with a corresponding sentence
of up to 10 years incarceration plus a $250,000 fine.
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