TRENTON
– Attorney General Paula T. Dow and
Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor
announced that a former Motor Vehicle Commission
clerk from Gloucester County pleaded guilty
today for her role in a scheme to issue
a driver’s license with a false birth
date so the license holder would appear
to be 21-years-old.
Amanda
Green, 27, of Woodbury, pleaded guilty before
Superior Court Judge Irwin J. Snyder in
Camden County to second-degree conspiracy.
Deputy Attorney General Jacqueline D. Smith,
deputy chief of the Division of Criminal
Justice Major Crimes Bureau, prosecuted
the case and represented the state at the
guilty plea hearing.
Judge
Snyder scheduled sentencing for May 14.
Green’s
co-defendant, Bridgett Hagan, 21, of Gloucester
City, was sentenced in June to five years
of probation, conditioned on her serving
270 days in Camden County Jail. Hagan was
also ordered to forfeit her public employment.
She pleaded guilty on March 10, 2008 to
conspiracy to commit computer criminal activity.
Green and Hagan were arrested on Aug. 28,
2008.
The
charges stem from a joint investigation
by the Division of Criminal Justice and
the Motor Vehicle Commission. When the offense
occurred in 2008, Green and Hagan worked
in the Cherry Hill Motor Vehicle Agency.
Before they were arrested and suspended,
Green and Hagan were transferred to the
Camden Motor Vehicle Agency.
The
state investigation revealed that on April
29, 2008, Hagan used her access to the MVC
computer system to change the date of birth
listed for her from May 2, 1988, to May
2, 1986. She then issued a new digital driver’s
license for herself with the false birth
date.
In
pleading guilty, Green admitted that she
assisted Hagan in the fraudulent transaction.
The investigation determined that Green
collected the Motor Vehicle fee from Hagan
and put it into her own cash register, making
it appear as if she processed Hagan’s
transaction. Motor Vehicle clerks are not
allowed to process their own transactions.
The
investigation was conducted by Detectives
Michael Duffield, Richard A. Loufik, Frederic
Moore, Shawn Gorlin, Paul A. Marfino Jr.,
and Sgt. Kim Husband of the Division of
Criminal Justice, and Investigators Jeffrey
Streitz and Stephen Crane of the Motor Vehicle
Commission.
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