Migrant who bought fake D.C. driver’s license gets probation

Published January 13, 2009 5:00am ET



A 42-year-old hotel cook who was one of hundreds of immigrants who paid bribes to get fraudulently issued D.C. driver’s licenses was sentenced to one year of probation Tuesday.

Antonio Contreras, originally of El Salvador, and hundreds of other immigrants paid $1,000 to $1,800 to buy their licenses from convicted former D.C. motor vehicles clerk Patricia Gonzalez.

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