A Bronx woman facing felony charges after authorities say she got married 10 times in an apparent marriage scam was arrested after court Friday.Authorities say Liana Barrientos, 39, and her niece Tracy Barrientos walked through the gate of a subway station at 149th Street and Grand Concourse and did not pay the fare.They are charged with theft of service and criminal trespass.Liana Barrientos had been arraigned earlier on two counts of filing a false instrument. The groom was a man named Salle Keita, whom she wed March 4, 2010, according to the indictment.Police believe she was marrying men to get them into the country and apparently wed nine times between 1999 and 2002, never bothering to legally change her name.She is believed to be currently married to four people, and at one time, she was married to eight of them at the same time.The case was brought to the attention of the Bronx County District Attorney's Office by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security'sInvestigation Division.They indicated that seven of the men are from so-called "red-flagged" countries, which included Egypt, Turkey, Georgia, Pakistan, and Mali.Authorities say that in 2006, groom number eight Rashid Rajput was deported to his home country of Pakistan following an investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.Barientos lived in a Bronx building until recently with her boyfriend, a man who is apparently not one of the 10 men she is alleged to have married. Two years later, she married Ahmad Allam in Rye.Then, just 18 days later, she went to Yonkers to marry Habibur Rahman.
– A New York woman has, according to police, gotten married a few too many times, and she's now facing felony fraud charges. Authorities say Liana Barrientos, reported as being 38 or 39, has gotten married 10 times in 11 years, the New York Daily News reports, with six of those marriages allegedly occurring between February and August of 2002. She's never gotten divorced, according to the Daily News and ABC 7, though others report differently: The New York Post holds that at least one husband filed for divorce and a second "dumped her," placing her number of concurrent marriages at eight; the New York Times reports she's actually divorced from her first two husbands and two others, but that those splits happened "long after marrying 3 through 9." The latest alleged nuptials were in 2010, when Barrientos is said to have married a man named Salle Keita. The changes are in connection with that marriage. "The defendant ... stated in sum and substance that she did marry Mr. Keita and that was her first and only marriage," says the legal complaint. Officials haven't suggested a motive in the case, the Daily News notes, though a source tells the Post that "the motive was definitely not love." While the Post reports that she varied the spelling of her name in different marriages, the Daily News reports that she allegedly used the same Social Security number. A man at one of Barrientos' previous homes tells the Daily News she's now living in a homeless shelter. She faces two counts of filing a false instrument, each of which carries a four-year sentence. She was arrested last fall and will be arraigned today. (It's far from the only unusual crime to grab headlines this week.)