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TRENTON
– Attorney General Anne Milgram and
Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni
announced that a former Motor Vehicle Commission
clerk at the Cardiff Motor Vehicle Agency
was sentenced to prison today for selling
driver’s licenses to unauthorized persons.
According
to Director Gramiccioni, Lynette R. Daniel-Peterson,
43, of Egg Harbor Township, was sentenced
to three years in state prison by Superior
Court Judge Bernard E. DeLury Jr. in Atlantic
County. Daniel-Peterson was required to forfeit
her job and pension and is permanently barred
from public employment in New Jersey.
In
pleading guilty on Dec. 22, Daniel-Peterson
admitted that she issued New Jersey digital
driver’s licenses to individuals who
did not provide the MVC with the required
identification documents to demonstrate their
legal authority to obtain a license. Customers
paid several thousand dollars for each unauthorized
license, and Daniel-Peterson shared the money
with two men who assisted her.
Daniel-Peterson
was arrested on Aug. 8, 2007 at the Cardiff
MVC agency. Also arrested that day were Samuel
Pelaez-Garcia, 44, of Pleasantville, and Luis
A. Matos, 39, of Atlantic City. Pelaez-Garcia
acted as a broker, soliciting customers for
the ring, and Matos acted as a runner, bringing
customers into the MVC agency and assisting
in the transactions. Pelaez-Garcia pleaded
guilty to second-degree bribery and was sentenced
on Oct. 17 to three years in state prison.
Matos pleaded guilty to second-degree conspiracy
to commit official misconduct and was sentenced
on Feb. 27 to three years in prison.
Deputy
Attorney General Christine Hoffman prosecuted
the case and handled today’s sentencing
for the Division of Criminal Justice Major
Crimes Bureau - MVC Unit. The investigation
was conducted by Detective Michael LaRosa
and Detective Sgt. Mark Wilhelm of the New
Jersey State Police Auto Unit - Document Fraud
Squad. Attorney General Milgram thanked the
Egg Harbor Township Police Department and
the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission for
assisting in the investigation.
A
second MVC clerk, Rosalind C. Magee, 25, of
Egg Harbor Township, was arrested at the Cardiff
agency on the same day as Daniel-Peterson
in a related investigation. Magee and four
other individuals were indicted on Feb. 5
on charges they conspired to issue driver’s
licenses and related documents to individuals
not authorized to receive them. Those charges
are pending.
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