Dennys Tome-Henriquez, 27, of New Brunswick, NJ, pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy to produce and transfer unlawfully produced Maryland driver’s licenses issued by the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA).

According to the plea agreement presented to Maryland District Court, Tome-Henriquez met with prospective driver’s license applicants during 2006 who were willing to pay money to obtain a driver’s license illegally, typically because the applicants were aliens without legal status in the United States or were otherwise unable to obtain a lawfully issued driver’s license.

Applicants would pay Tome-Henriquez and others approximately $2,500 to $3,800 for each fraudulently issued Maryland driver’s license. Tome-Henriquez helped the applicants travel to the Beltsville branch of the MVA and directed the applicants to a co-conspirator’s MVA workstation, where the applicants obtained the unlawfully produced Maryland driver’s licenses.

The co-conspirator employed with the MVA was paid approximately $1,300 for each license.  Tome-Henriquez was responsible for the production and transfer of between five and 25 Maryland driver’s licenses produced illegally.

On Sept. 16, 2006, Tome-Henriquez met with four applicants willing to pay to obtain a driver’s license illegally.  Payments to Tome-Henriquez and a co-conspirator included $3,800 in marked bills from one of the applicants who was cooperating with law enforcement agents. Tome-Henriquez took the applicants into the Beltsville branch of the MVA and directed them to a co-conspirator’s workstation to obtain the unlawfully produced driver’s licenses.  Tome-Henriquez also obtained a fraudulent driver’s license in his own name, using the Maryland address of another co-conspirator rather than his own address in New Jersey.  After leaving the MVA, agents arrested Tome-Henriquez and seized approximately $7,000.

Tome-Henriquez faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus scheduled sentencing for Feb. 20, 2007.