Thread: 5 arrested for selling driver's licenses to illegal immigran

July 17, 2007

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Five people, including an employee of Mississippi's driver's license division, are accused of taking part in a scheme to sell licenses to illegal aliens.

The licenses were allegedly sold for approximately $2,000 each.

Those arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents included two Mexican nationals and an Uzbek national.

The five had Mississippi or Alabama addresses.

Authorities say the group recruited illegal aliens to purchase the Mississippi licenses.

Melissa Green, of Tupelo, Mississippi, a driver license examiner for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, was part of the alleged conspiracy.

Court documents say Green's role in the scheme was to create computer records for the illegal aliens seeking a driver's license.

Others arrested in the scheme were Alfred Green, husband of Melissa Green; Davron Gayupov, of Gulfport, Mississippi; Baldamer Esquivel, of Troy; and Marco Martinez, of Mobile.

http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6802491

This is happening here in South Florida too

Others arrested in the scheme were Alfred Green, husband of Melissa Green; Davron Gayupov, of Gulfport, Mississippi; Baldamer Esquivel, of Troy; and Marco Martinez, of Mobile.

Well, now I've lost my innocence. Troy, Alabama is a sleepy little town southeast of Montgomery where people still refer to the civil war as 'that recent unpleasantness.' If they've invaded that little hamlet we might as well surrender. And right under Jeff Session's nose!