Ian Roberts, Prominent Illegal Immigrant Criminal, Is Finally Booted From Maryland’s Voter List

The state of Maryland has finally removed from its voter rolls a Guyanese citizen who grabbed national headlines last year for scamming multiple school systems into hiring him as a high-level administrator.

State officials removed Ian Andre Roberts on June 2, days after he was sentenced to two years in federal prison for gun possession and lying about his citizenship to secure an Iowa superintendent position.

Maryland officials previously resisted calls to purge Roberts from the rolls, refusing to confirm he was the individual at the center of the national controversy. The state’s recent actions, however, indicate it now acknowledges the match.

The state’s voter file on Roberts now includes the federal court judgment sentencing him to prison for gun possession and false citizenship claims.

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The records show that the board resisted removing Roberts for months, even after his arrest in September and his guilty plea in January. In September, the board issued a statement refusing to confirm that he was the man who appeared on the state’s voter rolls.

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Roberts, who had been in the country without legal status for decades, first registered to vote in Hyattsville in December 2011 and was added to the rolls in January 2012. He checked the box indicating he was a citizen and signed under penalty of perjury, affirming that he was a citizen, even though he had never attained U.S. citizenship.

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Maryland records do not indicate that Roberts ever cast a ballot.

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