Wendy Diaz Perez who is a naturalized Belizean, was charged with falsifying a statement to get her social security card. In August 2013, Perez used the name Wendy Marisol Tut to get her social security card. Then, last year she went back to Social Security Board and applied for another social security card, using her real name. That was when it was discovered that she had falsified the statement she gave to Social Security Board in 2013. As a result, she was arrested and charged.

She pleaded guilty to the charge today when she appeared today before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford.

Her attorney, Hurl Hamilton apologized to the court and Social Security Board on his client's behalf. He said Perez is the mother of two children, aged 11 and 9, and she has one more on the way. He said Perez saved the court time by pleading guilty and that because of that a discount should be made. He asked the court to fine her rather than confining her to jail.