He was a engineman, a Navy job that requires no security clearance.

Who is Arturo Puente?

For the past 22 years, he has been in the Navy with assignments at embassies in Rome and Panama. He’s now a chief petty officer at Mayport Naval Station.

But the State Department says the real Arturo Puente died in 1980 at age 11 — shortly after his mother says his birth certificate was stolen in Oregon.

Last week  the 41-year-old man now identified as John Doe was arrested in Jacksonville on a warrant accusing him of making a false statement in a 2006 application for a diplomatic passport. He is accused of using the dead child’s name throughout his Navy career and in a half dozen passport applications.

Back on base after a federal magistrate released him without bail, he told the Times-Union he’s “confused” about his arrest, even while conceding Arturo Puente isn’t really his name.

“I haven’t heard anything,” he said during a brief phone interview Monday.  “I went back to the base and back to work, and they treated me like nothing ever happened.”

An engineman on the USS Hue City, he has been at Mayport since January.  He also was at Mayport from 2000 to 2002, according to the Navy.

In court he requested a preliminary hearing in the District of Columbia, where the warrant was issued and the case will be prosecuted. He signed papers with the name Guillermo Salinas Guzman.- Jacksonville Times-Union

There are more details at the link about how this CPO’s deception was uncovered.

Wanna bet Mr. Salinas Guzman, who joined the Navy in 1987, is either an illegal alien or was a convicted criminal prior to his entering the service.