MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida village commissioner and former magnificence queen has been sentenced to a yr of probation and 50 hours of group service for pretending to be a paralegal to get right into a federal immigration detention heart to see her romantic accomplice.
Julianna Clare Strout, 36, was sentenced Wednesday in Miami federal court docket after pleading responsible to misdemeanor fees of making an attempt to enter, and coming into, a federal facility utilizing fraud and false pretenses, based on court docket data.
Strout was elected to the North Bay Village Commission in 2018.
Her time period ends subsequent month, and he or she isn’t working for re-election. North Bay Village covers two small islands within the bay between the northern ends of Miami and Miami Seashore.
In October 2021, the Krome Service Processing Middle in Miami quickly suspended social visits due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Authorized visits had been permitted.
Strout entered Krome 3 times that month by telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers that she labored as a paralegal for a regulation agency and that she wanted a shopper, who was truly her romantic accomplice, to signal authorized paperwork, prosecutors mentioned.
Strout offered officers with a letter written on letterhead from an actual regulation agency. However she had by no means labored for the agency, and attorneys there mentioned they by no means licensed her to make use of their letterhead or go to Krome on their behalf.
On one event, after initially being denied entry, Strout offered officers at Krome together with her North Bay Village Commissioner badge, defined that she was a public official and requested to enter Krome on that foundation, investigators mentioned.
Strout gained the Miss Rhode Island competitors in 2009 and competed within the Miss America pageant in 2010.