Morgantown business owner arrested for harboring illegal immigrants

MORGANTOWN, W.Va (WDTV) – A Morgantown construction company owner was arrested for harboring illegal immigrants Monday.

Hetzon Reyes, owner and operator of A&M Homes, is accused of hiring and harboring illegal immigrants to work for his company, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Reyes, also known as Hector, used the social security numbers of others to create tax documents for the individuals and created false driver’s licenses and immigration forms to provide to the West Virginia Division of Labor inspectors, officials said.

Reyes is charged with one count of conspiracy to harbor aliens for commercial advantage and private financial gain, 32 counts of false representations regarding social security numbers, one count of corrupt interference with due administration of tax code and one count of fraud related to visas and other documents.

He faces up to 10 years in federal prison for each of the conspiracy and fraud counts, five years for each of the false representations counts and up to three years for the corrupt interference count.

The case was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations unit, and the Social Security Administration’s Office of Inspector General.

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