Union County Man Sentenced for Selling Fictitious MVC Documents

TRENTON - Attorney General Zulima V. Farber and Division of Criminal Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced that a Union County man has been sentenced for the sale of phony Motor Vehicle Commission documents, including a driver’s license and insurance card.

According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden Brown, Roscoe Henderson Jr., 37, of Elizabeth, was sentenced on June 9 to three years in state prison by Union County Superior Court Judge James C. Heimlech. The sentence follows Henderson’s April 10 guilty plea to a criminal accusation that charged him with second-degree sale of a simulated document.

At the guilty plea hearing before Judge Heimlech, Henderson admitted that on at least one occasion he sold a fictitious driver’s license to an undercover State Police investigator. An investigation by the Division of Criminal Justice - Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor determined that, in addition to the driver’s license, Henderson sold false credit cards, birth certificates and social security cards. Henderson was arrested on Dec. 8, 2004 after selling the phony insurance card for $75 at the White Castle Restaurant located in Rahway. The investigation further revealed that Henderson made arrangements to sell inspection stickers, televisions and home computers.

State Investigators Wendy Wylie and Ron Williams and Deputy Attorney General Valerie A. Noto coordinated the investigation. The New Jersey State Police assisted in the investigation.

“The production and sale of phony documents is a serious crime that we frequently uncover as part of insurance fraud investigations,” said Fraud Prosecutor Brown. “Like other forms of insurance fraud, it is crime that is committed at the expense of those of us who pay insurance premiums and play by the rules.”

Additional information and a copy of this release are available via the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Web site at www.NJInsuranceFraud.org.