FOLLOWING her indictment in federal court, the Department of Public Safety has placed Bureau of Motor Vehicles Director Juana Cabrera Leon Guerrero on an indefinite administrative leave.
Leon Guerrero is scheduled to appear today, Monday, March 20, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. before Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona of the District Court for the NMI for an initial appearance hearing.
On March 16, 2023, a federal grand jury indicted Leon Guerrero on the charge of conspiracy to unlawfully produce an identification document.
Yong De Li, also known as “Ivan,” was named as her co-defendant.
According to the indictment, “between on or about September 1, 2021, through on or about October 31, 2022, defendant Juana Cabrera Leon Guerrero, and defendant Yong De Li, A/K/A ‘Ivan,’ knowingly and intentionally conspired and agreed with each other, and other persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to commit an offense against the United States: specifically, to knowingly and without lawful authority produce an identification document, authentication feature, and false identification document, to wit. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands driver licenses, and the prohibited production, transfer, possession, and use was in or affected interstate and foreign commerce, including the transfer of a document by electronic means, all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, 10 Sections 1028(a)(1), (b)(l)(A)(ii), (c)(3)(A) & (f).”
Leon Guerrero was the acting public safety commissioner when the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant at DPS on Dec. 16, 2022. The first office to be searched was the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
