{"id":1614,"date":"2026-06-10T22:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T22:04:24","slug":"man-schemed-to-sell-counterfeit-passports-in-south-florida-feds-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"Man schemed to sell counterfeit passports in South Florida, feds say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Nicaraguan man accused in a scheme to manufacture and sell counterfeit passports in South Florida has been extradited to the United States, authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=1612\">Florida Supreme Court allows use of new U.S. House districts for midterm elections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Armando Morales Obando, 63, was extradited from Costa Rica to face charges related to the counterfeit passport scheme as well as charges related to a counterfeit cash scheme, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of Florida said.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Morales Obando was living in Costa Rica between January and June of 2020 when he conspired with others to manufacture and sell the counterfeit U.S. passports in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Morales Obando allegedly negotiated the sale of five fraudulent passports, coordinated the collection of $5,500 in payments, and arranged for the passports to be shipped from Nicaragua to Broward County.<\/p>\n<p>The passports contained information of real people but had photographs of other people, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=1611\">Referee barred from entering U.S. for World Cup receives a hero\u2019s welcome in Somalia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morales Obando is also accused of conspiring with others to create $20,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency before exchanging it for $6,000 in real U.S. currency, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>He faces multiple charges including conspiracy, passport fraud, identity theft and uttering counterfeit currency.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Morales Obando faces up to 20 years in federal prison on the counterfeit currency count, up to 10 years in prison on each passport fraud count, up to five years in prison on each conspiracy counts, and a mandatory consecutive two-year sentence on each aggravated identity theft count.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonvillemovingnews.com\/?p=1609\">Miami woman arrested in violent kidnapping and robbery, separate burglary, cops say<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nicaraguan man accused in a scheme to manufacture and sell counterfeit passports in South Florida has been extradited to the United States, authorities said\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-florida"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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