Ark. state worker sentenced for ID sales

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 · Last updated 9:08 a.m. PT

Ark. state worker sentenced for ID sales

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BENTONVILLE, Ark. --

A state worker and her mother were sentenced to seven years in prison
for selling fake IDs to illegal immigrants.

Connie Beeks, 45, admitted she drove several illegal immigrants to the state
Revenue Office where her daughter, Lorainne Nicklas Janway, 28, worked.
Janway provided them fraudulent identification cards and driver's licenses
for between $300 and $1,500.

"If you had deeper pockets, then you got charged a little more," said Doug Freeman,
a federal air marshal assigned to the FBI's Terrorism Task Force in Little Rock.

Janway's official duties included issuing state IDs.
She and her mother were sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to forgery.
The maximum sentence they could have received was 20 years.

Authorities said they don't know the scope of the scheme.
"We know it happened more than once, we just don't know how many times,"
Deputy Prosecutor Drew Ledbetter said.