An employee at the Beltsville office of the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration and four others have been indicted on three counts of conspiracy charges that they sold more than 150 false driver’s licenses and identification documents from January 2005 through Sept. 16, according to paperwork filed Tuesday in Greenbelt federal court.
Federal prosecutors allege that 45-year-old Ana Maria Lorena Creque, of Adelphi, 27-year-old Hector David Elvir-Hernandez, of Beltsville and two Brunswick, N.J., men, 28-year-old Henry Geovanni Romero-Nunez and 27-year-old Dennys Tome-Henriquez, charged between $2,500 and $3,800 in cash for each fraudulently issued Maryland driver’s license or identification card. The four went as far as to drive their customers to the office in order to obtain the documents, prosecutors said.
Creque, prosecutors said, then paid 34-year-old administration employee Candace Nicole Green of Landover about $1,300 to acquire each bogus document. Prosecutors said applicants who paid for the materials were steered toward Green’s workstation at the administration’s Beltsville office. Creque prepared paperwork for automobile titles at the a Beltsville car dealership when she met Green, prosecutors said.
The defendants were arrested Tuesday.
Each of the defendants could face up to 15 years in prison as well as a fine of $250,000. The case also seeks to seize $200,000 from the defendants.
