(La Porte County, IN) - Charges have been filed in La Porte County against a man possibly in the country illegally.

 

Last week, a sheriff’s deputy stopped a driver for traveling 89 miles per hour on U.S. 20 near Rolling Prairie.

 

Police said there was no record of him ever having a driver’s license. He was also allegedly in possession of a counterfeit U.S. residency card and a fake social security card.

 

According to police, he claimed being given the social security card so he could get a job in the U.S. and that he was born in Venezuela. Argenis Mayz Ruiz was taken to the La Porte County Jail.

 

Currently, he has an initial hearing scheduled January 31 in La Porte Circuit Court on charges of reckless driving and other counts including possession of false government documents.