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More than two dozen students of a Weld County truck-driving school illegally obtained commercial driver’s licenses and were later blamed for nearly 200 traffic and regulatory violations, including 26 accidents, investigators say.
Twenty-seven students who attended the school, Careers World Wide, used false personal information to get training permits and other documents from the state Division of Motor Vehicles, a federal agent says in court documents. All dealt with Janet Gonzalez, a license examiner in Northglenn who has been arrested and accused of providing licenses for cash, the records show.
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Gonzalez and another DMV employee, Virginia Villegas, are accused of selling commercial learner’s permits, driver’s licenses and other documents to people who could not otherwise obtain them, including undocumented immigrants.
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In February, a man identified as Jesus Roberto Porras, 36, called Beltran and asked about fraudulently obtaining a commercial driver’s license, an arrest warrant affidavit says. Beltran asked Porras for $2,000 cash and subsequently introduced Porras to Gonzalez.
Gonzalez did not require Porras to take a written test and entered false information about him into the Colorado DMV computer system indicating he had successfully passed an exam and had a valid Social Security number, records show. He was issued a commercial learner’s permit.
Within weeks, Porras had obtained a certificate saying he had passed a required driving skills test at Careers World Wide. With the permit and the certificate, he was able to get get a commercial driver’s license. Porras could not be reached for comment.
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(Posted on January 27, 2005)