Ocean Township Man Indicted in Fake Government ID Case

An Ocean Township man has been indicted by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, charged with making and selling fake government IDs.

Lucio Medina-Sanchez, 36, is facing 16 counts of manufacturing and selling fraudulent government documents, Prosecutor Peter E. Warshaw, Jr. announced on Tuesday.

The charges stem from a joint investigation by the Monmouth Prosecutor’s Office, the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Ocean Township Police Department, according to the indictment.

The investigation revealed that Medina-Sanchez was allegedly manufacturing fake government ID cards, including social security cards and U.S. permanent resident cards, at his Ocean Township apartment, 2137 Aldrin Road.

According to the indictment, Medina-Sanchez required his customers to provide him with a passport-sized photo and a name and birth date of their choosing. Medina-Sanchez would then create the fake documents and be paid according to the type of document manufactured.

On Feb. 2, law enforcement officers and agents executed a search warrant on Medina-Sanchez’s apartment and seized computers, laminates and other various materials used by Medina-Sanchez to create the fake ID documents.

If convicted Medina-Sanchez faces up to 10 years in prison on each count of manufacturing and sale of false government documents. He is currently being held in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution in lieu of $250,000 bail with no ten percent option.

The case is assigned to Assistant Prosecutor Paul Alexander of the Office’s Narcotics and Criminal Enterprise Unit. Medina-Sanchez is represented by Elizabeth Persinger, Esq.