Worker at DMV pleads guilty to selling fake ID card

Friday, May 27, 2005 | 10:58 a.m.

A Department of Motor Vehicles employee caught on tape selling a fake state identification card pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of possession or sale of a document or personal identifying information to establish a false identity.

Senior Deputy Attorney General Conrad Haffen said he would not oppose probation for Charita Murray Carter, but said she could be sentenced to one to five years in prison.

District Judge Stewart Bell is scheduled to sentence Carter on July 21.

Carter came under suspicion after another woman, Crystal Lamb, was arrested on prostitution charges in September 2004. In January, Metro Police said they discovered Lamb had a fake Nevada identification card, which was eventually traced to Carter.

Lamb allegedly told state officials that she had been introduced to a man at the West Flamingo Road branch of the DMV. The man then introduced her to a clerk identified as Carter.

She would later pay a man named "Romeo" or "Remo" $500 for the falsified card, police said.

Carter was arrested after an undercover meeting in which Lamb tried to buy another ID card with bogus information, according to police.

On March 7, computer, records, printing equipment and 1,700 blank driver's licenses were stolen from the DMV at 4110 Donovan Way near Craig Road and Interstate 15.

As of Thursday afternoon, officials had yet to report any arrests or recoveries of DMV property in connection with that case.

Officials conceded that files were stolen from computers that could provide burglars with complete driver's license information, Social Security numbers and dates of birth for 8,738 individuals who had been issued a driver's license at the DMV from Nov. 25, 2004, to March 4, 2005.

The Department of Public Safety and North Las Vegas Police are investigating the missing files. No arrests have been made in that case.