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4th suspect in driver’s license scam pleads guilty
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Posted on Jun 21 2011
Four of the five persons accused of involvement in a driver’s license scam at the Department of Public Safety have now pleaded guilty to the charges in federal court.
Tahira Dolores Miah appeared yesterday with her court-appointed counsel, Anthony Long, to change her plea and plead guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully produce and transfer an identification document.
U.S. District Court for the NMI judge A. Wallace Tashima set Miah’s sentencing hearing for Sept. 21, 2011, at 9am.
The judge granted assistant U.S. attorney Kirk Schuler’s request that Miah’s no contact order with her husband, Mohammad Jahangir Miah, be removed.
Mr. Miah is the only remaining defendant in the case who has yet to plead guilty. The U.S. Probation Office yesterday asked the federal court to set a hearing and issue summons for Mr. Miah to determine if his bail should be modified or revoked after he was arrested for allegedly possessing marijuana last May.
The other defendants in the case are former DPS Bureau of Motor Vehicles supervisor William A. Hocog, Hongmei Sun, and Hui Qiang Yan.
According to the U.S. government, Sun and Yan introduced foreign nationals as driver’s license applicants to the Miah couple in order for the applicants to illegally obtain driver’s licenses with the help of Hocog.
