A South Florida village commissioner and former magnificence queen has been sentenced to a 12 months of probation and 50 hours of group service for pretending to be a paralegal to get right into a federal immigration detention centre to see her romantic associate.
Julianna Clare Strout, 36, was sentenced on Wednesday in Miami federal court docket after pleading responsible to misdemeanor costs of making an attempt to enter, and getting into, a federal facility utilizing fraud and false pretences, in accordance with court docket information.
Strout was elected to the North Bay Village Fee in 2018. Her time period ends subsequent month, and he or she is not operating 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 Heart in Miami briefly 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 legislation agency and that she wanted a shopper, who was really her romantic associate, to signal authorized paperwork, prosecutors mentioned.
Strout introduced officers with a letter written on letterhead from an actual legislation agency. However she had by no means labored for the agency, and attorneys there mentioned they by no means authorised her to make use of their letterhead or go to Krome on their behalf.
On one event, after initially being denied entry, Strout introduced officers at Krome along 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.
The colourful spectacle took place during the national pageant's preliminary round which has just wrapped up in the Philippines.<br />