Biography
Carmen Maria Ponton Caro (La Negra), age 38, Salamanca-cluster defendant. 70 months federal prison + 36 months supervised release.
The original Southern District of Florida indictment in case 06-20001-CR-Lenard/Klein bears a January 3, 2006 filing stamp and names this defendant among ten accused in the Salamanca investigation. Its descriptions of the 2005 undercover operation are charging allegations. The indictment itself does not establish an arrest, extradition, prison admission or release date; the date embedded in the downloaded filename is not the filing date. Source: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-hrsp/legacy/2010/07/29/01-27-06foreign-nationals-indict.pdf#page=1
Birth-year source
U.S. Department of Justice plea announcement, December 7, 2007.
Federal endpoint verified October 12, 2026: The official BOP locator returned CARMEN MARIA PONTON CARO, register 78412-004, age 56, not in BOP custody as of March 18, 2011. Her full name and age align with DOJ’s February 2008 sentencing report. Sentence month, not announcement day, is recorded. The original arrest announcement establishes January 26, 2006; the earlier January 1 jail-admission placeholder and its calculated duration are removed. This BOP endpoint does not establish a deportation date or the end of supervised release.
