A Jamaican lady has been arrested and charged with unlawfully claiming U.S. citizenship to register and vote within the 2024 Florida Presidential Major Election.
Jacqueline Dianne Wallace, 52, was taken into custody following the unsealing of a federal felony criticism. Michelle Spaven, Performing United States Lawyer for the Northern District of Florida, introduced the cost shortly after Wallace made her preliminary court docket look in Tallahassee.
In accordance with the complaint, Wallace initially entered the USA in December 2010 on a six-month B2 vacationer visa however didn’t return to Jamaica as required. In January 2024, she used a web based registration system—which required certification of U.S. citizenship—to register to vote within the upcoming election. Prosecutors allege she submitted the fraudulent registration from a group school pc community.
Regardless of not having U.S. citizenship, Wallace is accused of casting a vote within the August 2024 federal main, which included the election of the President.
She was arrested by brokers from Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) and investigators with the Bay County Sheriff’s Workplace. If convicted, Wallace faces as much as 5 years in jail and will probably be topic to elimination from the USA.
The case was investigated by HSI’s Tampa Discipline Division, the Florida Division of Regulation Enforcement Workplace of Govt Investigations—Election Crime Unit, the Florida Division of State Workplace of Election Crimes and Safety, the Bay County Sheriff’s Workplace, the Bay County Supervisor of Elections, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Companies. Assistant U.S. Lawyer Eric Welch is prosecuting the case.
This prosecution is a part of Operation Take Again America, a Division of Justice initiative geared toward combating unlawful immigration, dismantling transnational felony organizations, and lowering violent crime by coordinated federal enforcement packages akin to OCDETF and Venture Secure Neighborhoods.
