TRENTON
– Attorney General Anne Milgram and
Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni
announced that an Ocean County man was sentenced
today for attempting to bribe a Motor Vehicle
Commission clerk at the Medford Motor Vehicle
Agency to issue driver’s licenses to
unauthorized persons.
According to Director Gramiccioni, Kenan Yilmaz,
36, of Plumstead, was ordered by Superior
Court Judge Thomas S. Smith Jr. in Burlington
County to serve five years in state prison.
Yilmaz pleaded guilty on Dec. 15 to bribery,
a charge contained in an April 29, 2008 indictment.
Judge
Smith also sentenced Yilmaz to three years
in prison for an unrelated possession of OxyContin
charge brought by the Burlington County Prosecutor’s
Office. That sentence will run concurrently
with the five-year sentence, and both will
run concurrently with a five-year sentence
imposed on Jan. 16 for charges of possession
with intent to distribute heroin within 500
feet of a public housing facility as well
as possession of OxyContin, both of which
were brought by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s
Office.
An
investigation by the State Police and the
Motor Vehicle Commission determined that between
January and March 2008, Yilmaz repeatedly
approached a clerk at the Medford Motor Vehicle
Agency and attempted to bribe her to issue
driver’s licenses to customers who did
not have the necessary six points of identification.
Yilmaz offered the clerk amounts ranging from
$1,500 to $5,000 for each driver’s license
he attempted to broker. In each instance,
the clerk refused to accept the money and
refused to issue the license.
The
case was investigated by Detective Sgt. Mark
Wilhelm of the State Police Auto Unit Document
Fraud Squad, working with Investigator Steven
Crane of the Motor Vehicle Commission.
Deputy
Attorney General Christine Hoffman represented
the Division of Criminal Justice Major Crimes
Bureau at the sentencing.
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