EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A Cuban man with a criminal record was arrested this week trying to cross from Ciudad Juarez and into El Paso using a fake birth certificate and ID.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Texas, Erick Maniel Martinez-Mendez tried to cross from Mexico and into the U.S. through the Paso Del Norte border bridge in Downtown El Paso, showing authorities a Texas birth certificate and ID with the name and date of birth that weren’t his.

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According to the criminal complaint affidavit, Martinez-Mendez reportedly told Customs and Border Protection officers that he lived in El Paso and was in Mexico visiting his mother in the hospital.

However, authorities said that a fingerprint scan revealed Martinez-Mendez’s real identity and his criminal record, which includes convictions for robbery/home invasion/armed kidnapping, for which he was sentenced to 17 years in prison; third degree grand theft and dealing in stolen property, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison; aggravated battery of a person detained in prison, which earned him a six-year prison sentence; and, most recently, smuggling contraband into prison and resisting an officer/battery on law enforcement, for which he was sentenced to four years and eight month.

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