A Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration employee pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to produce and sell fake Maryland driver?s licenses to illegal immigrants.
Candace Nicole Green, 34, of Landover, conspired with Ana Maria Lorena Creque, 45, of Adelphi, and Dennys Tome-Henriquez, 27, of New Brunswick, N.J., to create unlawfully produced identification documents from January 2005 to Sept. 16, 2006, according to court documents presented to the court at her plea Tuesday.
The trio used their positions, including Green?s job at the MVA office in Beltsville, where she issued Maryland driver?s licenses and identification cards, to further their scheme, prosecutors said.
Creque worked for a car dealership in Beltsville and she, Tome-Henriquez and others met with prospective Maryland driver?s license applicants who were willing to pay money to obtain a driver?s license illegally, according to prosecutors.
Creque then paid Green about $1,300 for each of the 162 fake driver?s licenses Green produced and transferred to the applicants, prosecutors said.
After her arrest Sept. 16, Green told investigating agents she had some of the payments at her house.
Agents found $9,000 in a bowling-ball bag at her residence, authorities said. Green faces a maximum penalty of 15 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
U.S. District Judge Roger Titus scheduled her sentencing for July 6. Creque and Tome-Henriquez pleaded guilty to the same charge and are scheduled to be sentenced April 12 and Feb. 20, respectively.
