Jul 03 2008
FBI Arrest DMV Worker for Giving Licenses to Illegals
Federal agents arrested a local driver’s license examiner Friday following a six-month investigation into her activities.
Susan Honeycutt, 50, a DMV driver’s license examiner since 1991, was detained at her Mt. Pleasant home by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) officers.
Honeycutt’s charges stem from allegations she knowingly arranged for and issued approximately 150 false licenses to illegal immigrants.
Those licenses, investigators said, were based on fraudulent information and non-existent addresses.
The timing of this is ironic because July 1st was also the same day that the State of North Carolina began its new system of issuing driver’s license. From now driver’s licenses will now be produced and mailed from Raleigh to the recipient. The idea behind this is to make the process more secure so that only one entity is issuing licenses rather than 114 different offices. Apparently, the idea behind this is to prevent exactly what happened with Honeycutt.
