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Former CDL tester pleads guilty to identify theft

Tonya Davis also pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Mississippi to making false statements.

   A former commercial driver’s license tester for the Mississippi Highway Patrol has pleaded guilty to identity theft and making false statements.
   Tonya Davis, who was indicted in April, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Miss., on June 14.
   According to the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General, between September 2017 and January 2018, David committed fraud by unlawfully using the names and testing identification credentials of multiple CDL testers without their consent. She also represented on paperwork and in the state database that individuals passed driver skills tests when she knew they had not taken those tests, according to investigators.

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