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What’s the likely punishment for using someone else’s information to get an ID from the DMV?

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Stan M asked:


When I was 20 I used a relative’s info to get a license from the DMV. They recently went to get their own license renewed and were confronted when they noticed the digital picture they had (of me) didn’t match. I used the ID to simply get into bars and casinos, nothing criminal. My relative now has to fill out a fraud complaint packet and will be issued a case number. My relative knew I had done this 4 years ago and just wants to get their license without legal remedy being taken against me. What will likely happen? Has anyone experienced this?

BRYCE

Comments

8 Responses to “What’s the likely punishment for using someone else’s information to get an ID from the DMV?”

  1. kimi_5595 on February 9th, 2010 3:39 am

    MORGAN

    skip town…. stealing someone’s identity is a felony!

  2. Driller Killer on February 10th, 2010 5:30 am

    DARIN

    Nothing criminal? You committed fraud and made this relatives’s life a nightmare.

  3. PM4 on February 11th, 2010 10:55 am

    BENJAMIN

    Getting into bars and criminals underage is considered illegal. Not to mention the identity theft that you committed.

  4. threedawg13 on February 11th, 2010 3:12 pm

    TERRANCE

    Nothing criminal??? Dude, doing that IS a crime. Underage drinking? Gambling? What is “Nothing Criminal” about breaking the law. 1. You committed fraud. 2. You committed ID Theft (now Federal). 3. Underage purchase of alcohol 4. Underage gambling. Not only is this criminal, its stupidity at its finest. You need to spend some time with a roommate named Bubba.

  5. CountyMounty on February 12th, 2010 6:44 pm

    RAMIRO

    You could both be charged. You said your relative knew that you did this. You used a false identity and he allowed you to use a false identity. I dont know that they would be able to or care to go back in time to try to charge anything to do with the getting into bars but they certainly might charge you with something along the lines of falsifying documents or whatever your applicable state’s charge is along those lines.

    There are also specific laws that charges one who allows someone to use there identification.

    They may do nothing but certainly could.

  6. ashleyd on February 13th, 2010 2:13 pm

    CLEMENT

    It doesn’t matter if your family member wants to press charges or not, you committed a FEDERAL OFFENSE, and the federal government will make you pay for it. Hope all that bar-hopping and gambling was worth the time you’re going to spend in the federal pen!

  7. crusader.rabbitt on February 13th, 2010 6:49 pm

    WILFREDO

    Well, it is perjury, and usually you get a year in prison.
    Plus with a perjury conviction you can never get a job that requires a bond.
    The relative can probably fill out the fraud packet without implicating you, but if the DMV took your thumbprint (they do here in CA), then the next time you get fingerprinted, your prints will send a “flag” to the investigator.

  8. atlantismeditation@sbcglobal.net on February 13th, 2010 8:06 pm

    GARRY

    i hope they plant there foot so far up your @#$ you can see
    the name of the shoe they use from behind your eyes.

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