Fresh from attending a hearing at the Bronx County Courthouse on Friday afternoon, 38-year-old Liana Barrientos was arrested for using an emergency exit to board the subway. In the process, she did not pay for her subway ride.

For that offense, Barrientos was arrested and charged with criminal trespass and theft of service.

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Just two hours earlier, she filed a not guilty plea to charges of providing false information false instruments for filing in connection with accusations that she married 10 different men over 11 years, reports Pix11.

In her applications for a marriage license, Barrientos wrote that she was never married. She is reportedly still married to four of the men. One of them is a Pakistani who was eventually deported for terrorism threats against the U.S.

She told prosecutors on Friday that one of the 10 men she married to help him become a citizen in exchange for cash. Most of the men she married were only weddings of convenience as the men pursued American citizenship. When their applications for citizen are rejected, they divorce Barrientos and marry other women, reports the New York Times.

According to Jessica Lupo, assistant district attorney, most of the men whom Barrientos married are from red flag nations such as Pakistan, Georgia, Turkey and Egypt. Most of the immigrants from these countries are under heightened scrutiny due to their possible links to terrorism.

Although she married nine of the 10 men between 1999 and 2002, Barrientos is only charged with fraud for her marriage to her 10^th husband whom she wed in 2010 in Bronx because she wrote in her marriage license application that she was never married.

If found guilty by the court, Barrientos could be jailed up to four years.

The federal Department of Homeland Security flagged Barrientos after agents of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services noticed irregularities in immigration cases linked with her.

In fall, when Barrientos was confronted by Homeland Security probers, she admitted going to the immigration interview with her husband from Georgia, Vakhtang Dzneladze, and even providing him photos and documentation. For such services, she was paid several thousand dollars.

She will be back in court on May 18, but now has an additional case to attend to because of what she and a relative did at the subway.

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