A Dominican Republic citizen, Kelvin Prado-Robles, also known as Frankely Robles-Guzman, has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for fraud and immigration violations. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, Prado-Robles has never held legal immigration status in the United States. In January 2008, he was sentenced in Delaware to 24 months for false representation of citizenship, passport fraud, and identity theft offenses before being deported in February 2009. He reentered the country illegally and was arrested again by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Newark, New Jersey, in February 2011 and deported a second time later that year.
Authorities said that beginning in late 2017, Prado-Robles conspired with Domingo St. Hilaire Rosario and Jamie Pinto to use stolen identities to acquire vehicles from dealerships across Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. As described by officials: Rosario arranged for a car or motorcycle to be purchased or leased from a dealership in the name of an identity theft victim, while Prado-Robles or Pinto impersonated the victim at the dealership using fraudulent identification documents provided by Rosario.
The group managed to obtain at least 13 vehicles through this scheme and attempted two additional acquisitions. Law enforcement recovered some of these vehicles and returned them to dealers; overall losses exceeded $200,000.
Rosario and Prado-Robles fled to the Dominican Republic around 2018. Prado-Robles was later arrested in New Mexico in June 2023 under the name “Kelvin Prado-Roble” on illegal reentry charges. He pleaded guilty and received a ten-month sentence there before being transferred to Connecticut.
On August 8, 2025, Prado-Robles pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and illegal reentry after removal.
Rosario was extradited from the Dominican Republic in May 2020; he pleaded guilty to related charges and was sentenced on October 20, 2021, to 65 months imprisonment. Pinto also pleaded guilty on similar charges and received a sentence of 60 months on October 27, 2021.
The investigation involved collaboration between the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with support from Vernon Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Anastasia E. King prosecuted the case.
"David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut," announced these developments.
