A former Motor Vehicle Administration employee and two contractors are accused of falsifying dozens of written driving tests in an attempt to sell driver’s licenses and learner’s permits in Maryland.
The three suspects are charged with conspiracy to commit identity fraud with a value of between $25,000 and $100,000, according to a press release from the attorney general’s office.
“State employees have a responsibility to use their positions to protect our residents, and not engage in behavior that puts others at risk, such as financial or personal harm,” Attorney General Anthony Brown said in a press release.
In the spring of 2022, two of the defendants were employed as contract bailiffs at the MVA, while the third was a customer agent at the agency’s Reisterstown Road location in Baltimore City, the press release said.
One of the administrators posted on Instagram about driver’s licenses and learner’s permits for sale for $600 each, and the other assumed the identities of at least 66 candidates for the written portion of their driving test, the press release said.
According to the press release, the two guards used the money they had received from the applicants to bribe the MVA employee, who also administered the tests.
The suspects are a 29-year-old woman from Brooklyn, Maryland, a 54-year-old man from Baltimore City and a 34-year-old woman from Baltimore City. The contract administrators are also charged with bribery and conspiracy to bribe a government employee, while the former MVA employee is charged with accepting bribes and misconduct in office, according to court records in Baltimore City Circuit Court.
An attorney representing one of the suspects did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday night. No attorney is listed for the others in online court records either.
