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A man who prosecutors say impersonated an attorney pleaded innocent Friday to eight felony charges.
Steven Kurt Dony, 30, is accused of false impersonation of Phoenix attorney Curtis Ullman, whose identity he allegedly used in his law office in San Diego.
Ullman works for a Phoenix law firm but is licensed to practice in California.
Dony is also charged with five counts of grand theft, auto theft, and making a false credit application.
San Diego Municipal Judge Timothy Tower set bail at $100,000, at the request of Deputy Dist. Atty. Lantz Lewis. A preliminary hearing was set for Jan. 26.
![Jaime Ernesto Alvarez-Gonzalez, a citizen of Mexico who is unlawfully present in the U.S., pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he impersonated a U.S. Border Patrol Agent in order to disrupt deportation missions. During an incident on January 8, 2026, Alvarez-Gonzalez closely followed an actual Border Patrol agent while both were driving black Ford F-150 trucks. Alvarez-Gonzalez’s truck appeared to be an undercover Border Patrol vehicle and had a Border Patrol sticker on the windshield, non-functioning radio communications antennae on the roof, a lightbar on the dashboard, a license plate frame displaying the words “Ferderal Truck” [sic.], and handcuffs hanging from the rear-view mirror.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/99bd528/2147483647/strip/true/crop/743x497+92+0/resize/1024x685!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F80%2Fe6%2F080b3451474bb7f56b7db1e952eb%2Fla-me-impersonating-border-patrol.jpg)
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