Morgantown construction company owner indicted for harboring individuals unlawfully in the United States

Date: Sept. 30, 2024

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Wheeling, WV - Hetzon Marroquin Reyes, owner and operator of A&M Homes, LLC, in Morgantown, West Virginia, was arrested today on charges involving the harboring and concealing of persons who were not citizens and unlawfully in the United States, announced United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld.

According to the filed indictment unsealed today, Reyes, also known as "Hector," hired and harbored individuals who were not citizens and otherwise unlawfully in the United States to work for his company. Reyes used the social security numbers of others to create tax documents for the individuals who were unlawfully in the country. He also created false driver's licenses and immigration forms to provide to the West Virginia Division of Labor inspectors.

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.

Reyes faces up to 10 years in federal prison for each of the conspiracy and fraud counts. He faces up to five years for each of the false representations counts and up to three years for the corrupt interference count. If convicted, a federal district court judge would determine the sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jarod Douglas and Carly Nogay is prosecuting the case on behalf of the government.

The case was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), the Department of Homeland Security, and the Social Security Administration-Office of Inspector General.

An indictment is merely an allegation, and each defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

IRS-CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. IRS-CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, obtaining a more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.