BOARDMAN — An unidentified man is in trouble with authorities at all levels after authorities allege he tried to obtain a state ID card using forged documents.

When police responded to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office on Boardman-Canfield Road, they encountered a Hispanic man whom BMV employees said tried to obtain an Ohio ID card using a counterfeit Social Security card and United States permanent resident card.

The police report states that the Social Security card, when run through a database serving all 50 states, INTERPOL, and other agencies, did not correspond with the name the man gave. The permanent resident card did not return any results.

The report states that the Social Security card and residence card both lacked distinguishing characteristics of authentic cards, which made them easily detectable for BMV employees and police. A BMV investigator arrived and confirmed the cards were fakes.

The report states that a BMV employee translated in Spanish for police because the man spoke very little English. The man told police he works at a local Mexican restaurant. He provided police with a paystub and W-2 for that business, and those documents showed an address on Water Street in Poland.

The report states the man’s identity could not be determined, and he was arrested on a charge of forgery, a fifth-degree felony. He was booked into the Mahoning County jail as John Doe.

The report states that Boardman police contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and were told that the man’s use of counterfeit documents most likely means he is an unregistered immigrant.

The federal agency placed a detainer on the man, meaning he will be unable to post bond on the forgery charge until his identity and immigration status can be determined.