A Brownsdale man accused of perjury for allegedly using an alias while under oath pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges Thursday.

William Ivan Cifuentes-Garcia, 26, will appear in court next on June 11 for a scheduled pre-trial hearing.

According to a criminal complaint, the perjury charges stem from a discrepancy that came to light in late January while an officer was performing a pre-sentencing investigation on an individual for a driving offense.

“Michael Mesa,” who had plead guilty to a gross misdemeanor DWI last fall, was found linked to two separate addresses — one in Minnesota and one in Texas — during that investigation.

When the officer spoke with “Mesa” about this, he admitted that his real name was Cifuentes-Garcia and that he had used the alias to work at Quality Pork Processors in Austin.

Because he went all the way through the DWI case with an alias, Cifuentes-Garcia allegedly committed perjury twice — once when submitting a financial affidavit on Nov. 13, 2009, and once again when he entered his guilty plea on Nov. 19.

In addition to the two felony perjury charges, Cifuentes-Garcia faces two lesser counts of providing a false name to a police officer.