{"id":10721,"date":"2011-11-05T02:46:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=10721"},"modified":"2011-11-05T02:46:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:46:03","slug":"woman-in-drivers-license-scam-gets-2-year-probation-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/woman-in-drivers-license-scam-gets-2-year-probation-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in driver&#8217;s license scam gets 2-year probation sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The federal court yesterday imposed a two-year probation sentence on one of five persons involved in a driver&#8217;s license scam at the Department of Public Safety&#8217;s Bureau of Motor Vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona ordered Tahira Dolores Selepeo Miah to comply with conditions, including performing 100 hours of community service and paying $25 in special assessment fee.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona dismissed the indictment that charged Miah with three counts as part of the plea bargain.<\/p>\n<p>The judge noted that the defendant&#8217;s actions in this case implicated the public&#8217;s safety but when she realized that what she did was unlawful, she immediately assisted law enforcement in the investigation and cooperated with the government.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona said she agrees with the recommendation by the U.S. government and defense counsel G. Anthony Long that probation is the appropriate sentence for Miah.<\/p>\n<p>Last June, Miah pleaded guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully produce and transfer an identification document.<\/p>\n<p>The other co-defendants are Miah&#8217;s former husband, Mohammad Jahangir Miah, DPS Bureau of Motor Vehicles&#8217; former supervisor William A. Hocog, Hongmei Sun, and Hui Qiang Yan. All defendants pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. government, Sun and Yan introduced foreign nationals as driver&#8217;s license applicants to the Miah couple in order for the applicants to illegally obtain driver&#8217;s licenses with the help of Hocog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter The federal court yesterday imposed a two-year probation sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}