A Jamaican man is facing up to ten years in a US prison after he illegally re-entered the country following a drug conviction and stole another person's identity to remain there.
On Monday, 54-year-old Roan Lynch, who was residing in Forsyth, Georgia, pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement in an application for a passport, one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of illegal reentry in federal court.
Lynch faces a maximum sentence of ten years in prison for the false statement in an application for a passport charge; a maximum sentence of two years in prison for the illegal reentry charge; a mandatory consecutive two-year prison sentence for the aggravated identity theft charge.
There is a $250,000 fine for each count.
Lynch is to be sentenced on July 9.
According to court documents, he was previously convicted of conspiracy to distribute marijuana in the Western District of New York in 1997 and was deported to Jamaica in April 2000.
The Jamaican was prohibited from entering the United States for ten years. However, he ignored the court order and illegally reentered the country sometime prior to April 24, 2002.
He then stole the identity of a man whom he met in New York in the 1980s, which he used to apply for, receive and renew a US passport.
The crime was uncovered when the victim applied for a US passport in April 2024.
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