Jared Mark Caros was sentenced to ten months in prison with one year of supervised release to follow for making false statements in an application for a U.S. Passport. Caros was previously found guilty after a jury trial in June.
Caros, age 32, of Elizabethtown, Ky., in September, Caros admitted his guilt in open court.
In 2010, Caros made false statements in an application for a U.S. Passport. In that application, he falsely claimed the identity of a man from Payson, Ariz. The U.S. Department of State discovered Caros’s fraud in 2016 when the Payson man applied for a U.S. Passport. Caros, a U.S. citizen, was arrested by Diplomatic Security agents upon his return to the U.S. from service in a foreign military.
The investigation in this case was conducted by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security.