A federal grand jury indicted a University of Maryland student on charges of producing and selling fake driver’s licenses to people under the age of 21.
According to court documents, 20-year-old Theodore Michaels, of Potomac, got referrals from acquaintances. Prosecutors allege Michaels and a conspirator made fake Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania driver’s licenses in a dorm room using an identification card printer and encoder and a thermal printer among other tools.
The pair then sold the cards complete with holograms that appeared real and magnetic encoded strips, according to court documents.
Each card sold for $100 to $175. The pair allegedly made more than $12,000 off their production.