Immigration And Customs Enforcement Dept: The jig was up, however, when 27-year-old Jaime Alvarado returned to the U.S. using his passport and was arrested again by Salt Lake City police, according to The Star. After pleading guilty to the charges, Alvarado was turned over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deported to Mexico. The tactic exploited a system in which law enforcement officials sometimes prefer deporting illegal immigrant offenders instead of adding to an already overloaded prison system and sALT LAKE CITY A Utah man hatched a creative scheme to avoid going to prison on a drug charge: He lied to authorities and said he was an illegal immigrant so he could get deported to Mexico and evade time behind bars. According to reports, 27-year-old Jaime Alvarado was arrested on Feb. 27, 2010 on drug trafficking charges. During a hearing, Alvarado claimed that his name was actually Saul Quiroz and that he was an illegal immigrant from Mexico.
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@t salt lake city police, drug trafficking charges
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