Romanian Frauds Charged With Major Hate Crimes

Two frauds native to Romania posing as immigrants charged with hate crimes for targeting Hispanic victims in street robberies across Orange County Two Romanian nationals have been charged with hate crimes for posing as United States immigration agents while targeting Hispanic victims across Orange County who they believed were undocumented immigrants fearing deportation to steal their money and debit cards. The men are accused of wearing fake law enforcement badges around their necks while speaking to the victims in Spanish and threatening to deport them if they refused to hand over their money and debit cards. They had a gun in their car during at least one of the robberies.