Ex-Iowa schools chief gets 2-year sentence on immigration, gun charges
The judge said his false citizenship claim and illegal gun possession warranted prison time, while prosecutors sought a longer term and deportation after release.
- Former Des Moines school superintendent Ian Roberts was sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and illegally possessing firearms. He is expected to be deported to Guyana after serving his sentence.
- A federal judge sentenced former Iowa school district leader Ian Roberts to two years in prison, rejecting a request for probation. Prosecutors said he worked for years without legal employment authorization and used false documents.
- Ian Roberts, who previously led Iowa’s largest school district, received a two-year federal prison sentence in a case involving false identity documents and firearm violations. The case also raised questions about his immigration status and employment history.
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Former head of Iowa school district sentenced to 2 years for falsely claiming to be a US citizen
The former superintendent of the Des Moines public school district who was arrested last year in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown was sentenced Friday to two years in prison.
Ex-Iowa schools chief gets 2-year sentence on immigration, gun charges
Ian Roberts, the former school superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced Friday to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty on federal charges of falsely claiming to be a citizen and illegally possessing a firearm. Roberts had led one of the state’s largest school districts, which serves more than 30,000 students, from 2023...
Ex-head of Des Moines schools sentenced to 2 years in prison for misrepresenting U.S. citizenship
The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district was sentenced Friday to two years in federal prison for falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen.“I regret what I’ve done every single day,” Ian Roberts said before U.S.
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