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Connecticut DMV Workers Charged with Selling Registration Info

An AP newswire article, via The Boston Globe, reports that:

Two employees of the [Connecticut] state Department of Motor Vehicles are accused of conspiring to sell car registration information to a New York dealer.

Jason Rodriguez, 36, and Omayra Vargas, 35, both of Hartford, were arrested this week and charged with conspiracy to receive a bribe and committing a computer crime, police said.

Rodriguez and Vargas, who both worked in the DMV's office in Wethersfield, allegedly conspired to accept a bribe from the dealer in return for giving him details about certain older, potentially valuable cars owned by Connecticut residents, police said.

That dealer, 43-year-old Robert Russo of Commack, N.Y., was arrested in May on bribery charges in connection with the alleged incident, police said.

posted by Fergie @ 6/24/2006 10:10:00 AM