Evengelyn Eudora Conrad Jones, a woman who entered a guilty plea to the charge of visa fraud, was slapped with a 10-month prison term in federal court.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona ordered that five months out of the 10 months imprisonment should be served under home confinement.<\/p>\n
Jones, 33, was given credit for the time she already served in prison. As of last June 12, she has been in custody for 139 days already, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Jones was required to pay a $100 special assessment fee and perform 100 hours of community work service, which shall be suspended if she is employed.<\/p>\n
Assistant U.S. attorney Ross Naughton recommended a sentence of 10 months imprisonment. Defendant\u2019s counsel, David Banes, recommended a sentence of time served with the remainder in home detention or confinement.<\/p>\n
Banes noted that it\u2019s the defendant\u2019s first criminal conviction, she is a single mother with minor children, the crime she admitted to was of a non-violent nature, and did not involve drugs.<\/p>\n
Naughton cited aggravating features of the offense conduct, such as its impact on other persons involved, and defendant\u2019s conduct on pre-trial release.<\/p>\n
Under the plea deal, Jones agreed to forfeit to the U.S. government her interest to $540\u2014representing the sum of money equal to the proceeds obtained from the commission of the offense.<\/p>\n
The U.S. government agreed not to prosecute Jones over her failure to appear at the hearing.<\/p>\n
According to the factual basis of the plea agreement, on Sept. 16, 2010, in the Form I-130 Jones represented under penalty of perjury that an individual who is known to her and who has the initials K.Y.O. was her \u201chusband\/wife\u201d\u2014a representation that she knew was false because while she had previously been married to K.Y.O. she had divorced him in 2006.<\/p>\n
Jones\u2019 representation had a natural tendency to influence, or was capable of influencing, the decisions or activities of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to the plea deal.<\/p>\n
Form I-130 refers to a U.S. citizen\u2019s petition for an alien relative.<\/p>\n
U.S. Deputy Marshal Don Hall served last Jan. 29 to Jones an arrest warrant that Manglona issued on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n
Manglona issued the arrest warrant after Jones did not show up at the revocation hearing.<\/p>\n
Jones was first arrested on an indictment charging her with one count of visa fraud and was released last Nov. 24 on a $5,000 unsecured bond.<\/p>\n
U.S. Probation officer Gregory Arriola then filed a petition for revocation of defendant\u2019s pre-trial release after she failed to appear for random drug tests on Dec. 16, 18, 20, and 30, 2014.<\/p>\n
At the Jan. 20 revocation hearing, Jones did not show up in court.<\/p>\n
This prompted Manglona to order the arrest of Jones.<\/p>\n
At the revocation hearing last Feb. 3, Jones admitted to the violations alleged in the petition to revoke the pretrial release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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