Everything seemed to be fine for Erick Porras Rivera when he entered a courtroom at the Riverside County Hall of Justice in Riverside on April 16.
Rivera, 66, wore a suit and was well maintained, based with the lawyers while he was preparing to represent an accused in a criminal case.
But at one point, the Sheriff's Department of the County Riverside said that Rivera has slipped. How, sheriff managers will not say.
However, someone told the deputies that Rivera was a false, whom he pretended to be a lawyer based in the County of Orange. The Sheriff deputies said that Rivera had fled the courthouse before being able to question it, according to a press release published Thursday who did not explain who left Rivera.
“The deputies launched an investigation which revealed that the suspect had received the costs of a client's deviation while representing fraudulently as an approved lawyer,” the statement said.
The deputies served a search warrant at the home of Rivera in the West 9th Street block 200 in Upland. There, he was arrested for suspicion of false identity usurpation, theft of false pretexts and to practice law without license. He had not been charged on Friday.
The days of Rivera at the bar may however not be completed. A lawyer noted with irony that if Rivera was charged, he could – legally – act like his own lawyer.
Sheriff's investigators ask anyone with information on Rivera to call 951-776-1099.
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