Illegal alien edition: foreigners charged with raping goat, bashing 2-year-old, $776k+ EBT card skimming ring
No. 183 — Jun. 28-Jul. 4, 2026
Happy Independence Day!
Fun fact: two out of the three founding fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence on behalf of North Carolina have Triangle ties, with Virginia-born John Penn hailing from east of Stovall in Granville County, while William Hooper and his family relocated to Hillsborough during the war to escape the British-controlled coast, where he was originally buried after his death.
(We have a couple stories from the night of July 4th we’re looking into, but we’ll save those for next week as they appear to have primarily happened in the early morning hours of Sunday.)
An ICE detainer has been issued for a Cary resident who is accused of raping a goat he stole after the bruised and lacerated animal was found wandering a local apartment complex last month.
An non-citizen resident of Garner charged with fracturing vertebrae and causing traumatic bleeding to the head of his own 2-year-old child also appears to be an illegal alien, with a magistrate reporting that no documentation of legal status could be found for the Indian immigrant.
Two Romanian illegal aliens have plead guilty after being caught red-handed in Mecklenburg County in a scheme which defrauded over $766,000 from the accounts of SNAP recipients, using account information stolen via card skimmers to clone EBT cards and make bulk purchases to resell such as thousands of dollars of candy, energy drinks, and infant formula bought at a “warehouse club” in Durham.
ICE detainer issued for Hispanic immigrant accused of raping stolen goat in Wake County
Animal cruelty: Cary man charged with stealing, injuring goat found wandering apartment complex - WRAL
Amalfi Avidai Roblero-Hernandez, 30, has been arrested and charged after a female goat with damage to its reproductive organs was found wandering a Cary apartment complex last month.
Law enforcement was able to identify the victim of the bestiality as a “female boer goat with white body and black head” which had been stolen from a farm in May, according to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office.
The charges allege that Roblero-Hernandez “assault[ed] and tortur[ed]” the goat, causing lacerations, bruising, and hemorraging as he sexually abused the animal.
The resident of Cary appears to be an illegal alien, with a magistrate being “unable to determine that the defendant is citizen or legal resident of the United States.”
Roblero-Hernandez is subject to an ICE detainer and is being held without bond, while facing the following charges¹ ²:
Cruelty to Animals
Crime Against Nature
Pursuing or Injuring Livestock with Intent to Steal
Misdemeanor Larceny
Roblero-Hernandez had also been caught driving without a license (and with an open container of alcohol); previous reporting by the Triangle Trumpet indicates that this is both a common crime for illegal aliens to commit, as well as one which does not result in their deportation even when repeatedly caught red-handed.
Indian father charged with breaking 2-year-old’s back: illegal immigrant?
Dad accused of attempting to murder 2-year-old child in Garner, records show - CBS17
Garner man accused of inflicting life-threatening injuries on child - N&O
Father charged with attempted first-degree murder after 2-year-old left with spinal fracture - WRAL
Kiran Netha Pasunuri, 44, has been charged by Garner Police with attempting to murder his own 2-year-old child after inflicting serious injuries in an incident last month, as well as failing to provide medical attention for the injuries.
According to the charges, Pasunuri fractured multiple of his child’s thoracic vertebrae and caused such significant bleeding in the child’s head that part of the child’s skull had to be surgically removed.
Pasunuri is charged with one count of attempted first degree murder, two counts of intentional child abuse inflicting serious injury, and two counts of negligent child abuse resulting in serious injury.
Pasunuri is being held without bond, with court documents revealing that Pasunuri “stated that he is not a US citizen” and that a magistrate “was unable to determine that the defendant is a citizen or legal resident of the United States.” (However, an ICE detainer does not appear to have been filed.)
Although one may not imagine the stereotypical illegal immigrant as an Indian, Pew Research Center estimates from 2023 indicate that out of ~3,210,000 first-generation Indian immigrants in the country, ~680,000 or 21.3% were “unauthorized immigrants.” (For instance, three Indians were nabbed in Durham as part of highly publicized ICE raids in February 2025.)
Data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows 97,000 and 90,000 “encounters” involving the apprehension etc. of Indians at the borders in 2023 and 2024. An increasing share of these Indians were caught at the US-Canada border (over 5,000 in May and June 2024), until a precipitous decline marking the second inauguration of President Donald Trump, since which fewer than 1,000 “encounters” with Indians have been documented at the Northern border.
Romanian illegal alien SNAP fraudsters made purchases at Durham “warehouse club”
Illegal Alien Romanian Brothers Plead Guilty to Multistate SNAP Benefit Fraud Scheme - US DOJ Office of Public Affairs
Brothers stole thousands of dollars in candy and coffee from NC stores, feds say - N&O
Marian Ovidiu Dumitru, 37, and Catalin Dumitru, 39, have each plead guilty to wire fraud after being charged federally in the Western District of North Carolina with participating in a scheme to clone Electronic Benefit Transfer cards using magnetic card skimmers, which were then used to drain the accounts of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients with bulk purchases of resalable items.
According to court documents, Catalin and Marian Dumitru each used one such card stolen from a resident of Massachusetts to purchase $2,327.10 in infant formula, $1,344.64 in candy, and $564.80 in energy drinks across multiple visits in 2024 to a warehouse club in Durham using a fraudulent membership which had been opened in the name of the welfare recipient from whom the benefits were stolen.
The Romanian brothers, who are in the country illegally, were caught in Mecklenburg County in August 2025 with magnetic card cloning equipment as well as at least fifteen counterfeit cards which had already been loaded with stolen SNAP EBT account information.
The court documents report a total of over $766,000 in benefits stolen via the fraud ring, much of which was laundered through additional North Carolina warehouse club locations such as in Winston-Salem, Matthews, Harrisburg, Pineville, and Gastonia.
The brothers each face up to twenty years in prison.