The US Lawyer’s Workplace for the Center District of Florida introduced that Carlos Enrique Diaz Roque (29, Brooksville) has pleaded responsible to obstruction of official continuing. Diaz Roque faces a most penalty of 5 years in federal jail. U.S. Lawyer Gregory W. Kehoe made the announcement.
In line with the plea settlement, Diaz Roque, a licensed notary, agreed to arrange an immigration doc for Consumer-1. Diaz Roque, nonetheless, has by no means been a licensed lawyer.
On February 3, 2025, Diaz Roque filed a movement to administratively shut Consumer-1’s pending Orlando Immigration Courtroom case. That very same day, Diaz Roque additionally filed a doc that was supposedly the Division of Homeland Safety’s temporary opposing Consumer-1’s movement. That temporary mentioned that the Division of Homeland Safety “requests that the Courtroom don’t deny the respondent’s movement to administratively shut proceedings within the above-captioned case.” Diaz Roque signed the doc within the identify of the lawyer for the Division of Homeland Safety. In actual fact, as Diaz Roque nicely knew, the Division of Homeland Safety’s lawyer didn’t put together, signal, file or authorize submitting the temporary with the Orlando Immigration Courtroom in Consumer-1’s case.
On June 30, 2025, Consumer-1 testified beneath oath in Orlando Immigration Courtroom that he employed Diaz-Roque to arrange the movement for administrative closure. Consumer-1 denied ever seeing the opposition to it. On November 18, 2025, Diaz Roque admitted to 2 Homeland Safety Investigations brokers that he falsely signed the Division of Homeland Safety’s temporary and filed it.
This case was investigated by Homeland Safety Investigations. It’s being prosecuted by Assistant United States Lawyer Adam W. McCall.
