HAVERHILL — The assistant manager of the Haverhill branch of the Registry of Motor Vehicles was arrested yesterday by state police and charged in a scheme to make fake drivers' licenses for a fee.
Lyn Toscano, 34, of 42 Westminster Ave., is being charged by the state attorney general's office with two counts soliciting a bribe as a public employee, two counts of falsification of a driver's license and two counts of conspiracy. According to court documents, she operated the scheme from September 2008 to May 2009.
She was arraigned this morning in Haverhill District Court and released on $500 cash bail, which was in addition to the bail she posted after her arrest yesterday.
Police were tipped off to Toscano's activities by an anonymous call to a RMV customer service representative. The caller, later identified by police as Richard Chase of 55 Arch St., Haverhill, was arrested last May for criminal harassment of Toscano. That case is pending. In addition, Chase has a criminal record and has spent time in jail, records show.
An investigation followed, and police said it found Toscano was selling licenses illegally by overriding the RMV's system so that it did not require a written or road test or even an out-of-state license to do out-of-state license transfers.
She earned a large fee for the service, police said.
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