Nebraska packing plant employee arrested during raid gets prison sentence

A Columbus woman arrested during the December 2006 raid at a Grand Island meatpacking plant has been sentenced to more than a year in prison.  On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf sentenced 43-year-old Otilia Ortiz-Caheque to one year and one day in prison, followed by three years of probation, for misuse of an identification document. 

The U.S Attorney’s Office said Ortiz-Caheque used someone else’s name and Social Security number to get a job at Swift & Co. in July 2005.  She was arrested during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at the Grand Island plant that coincided with raids at five other Swift plants.  ICE officials investigating identity theft arrested 1,297 workers at the plants.