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license or altering a drivers license.
He said some people remove the
lamination and change the date of
birth — a change that is easy to
detect.
A1 Hummel, co-owner of
Duffy’s Tavem, 1412 O St., said
everyone 32 years of age and under
is carded. He said identifications
are checked at the door on busy
nights and at the bar on regular
nights.
“If it’s a college town, it’s
loaded with fake IDs,” he said.
Hummel said he and his em
ployees confiscate fake IDs when
someone presents one. He or his
employees then punch a hole in it.
He said he usually confiscates a
few a week.
He said he sees many types of
identifications and “some of them
are really bad and some are fantas
tic.”
Hummel said he will only ac
cept a drivers license for entry. If a
person uses an out-of-state drivers
license, Hummel uses the 1987 ID
Checking Guide to make sure it is
valid. The guide provides full-size
color samples of valid drivers li
censes and state identification
cards in each state.
reopie wunoui a an vers license
must sign a “declaration ofage,”he
said.
He said that rarely do people
with real identification have pic
tures that don’t look like them. He
said the best way to check is by
looking at the eye area.
“If they don’t put up a fight,
they’re a minor,” he said.
Hummel said the two most
common situations he encounters
are when people borrow an ID that
looks like them or when they pres
ent an altered Nebraska license.
Hummel said that if the estab
lishment got caught serving a
minor, even if that minor had a
good false ID, Duffy’s could be
fined or lose its liquor license.
Daryl Bahm, manager and part
owner of Herm’s Liquor Store,
1644 P St., said he confiscates
about five false IDs a month. These
include out-of-state licenses and
altered Nebraska licenses.
Bahm said Herm’s will accept
out-of-state licenses, but he also
refers to the ID Checking Guide.
He said that when he detects a
false ID, he confiscates it and calls
the police. About one-third of the
offenders leave the store when he
calls the police, he said. But others
stay, either because they don’t
think he really called the police or
because they want their ID back.
Rocke said if a minor attempts
to buy alcohol, the establishment
should call the police.
If police arrive when the minor
is still there, he said, they ticket and
cite him for “minor attempting to
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meanor. The penalty is up to $500
or three months in prison or both.
If minors also have altered their
licenses, they will be cited again,
which is another maximum $500
fine.
Rocke said another common
way of getting false identification
is by presenting someone else’s
birth certificate to get a Nebraska
drivers license or state identifica
tion.
Bill Kennedy, administrator of
the drivers services division of the
Nebraska Department of Motor
Vehicles, said attempting to obtain
a legitimate identification card
through fraudulent means is a
Class 3 felony.
Kennedy estimated that at least
1 percent and probably 2 percent of
all drivers licenses have false ages
or identities.
He said the Department of
Motor Vehicles has taken steps in
the last year to stop this problem.
“The system somewhat lends
itself to fraud,” Kennedy said,
because of the over-the-counter
issuance and the fact that both the
county and the state are involved in
issuing drivers licenses and state
identifications.
Examiners went through a
three-day training session to leam
to detect fraudulent identification,
he said.
If the examiner has a “well
founded suspicion of fraud, trick
ery or cheating, they can ask for
any additional ID,” he said. Exam
iners can also quiz the person on
personal information, he said. On a
duplicate license, the signatures
are compared.
Kennedy said that if the infor
mation is false the only thing the
State Department of Motor Ve
hicles can do is recall or revoke a
license and issue a pick-up order to
a law enforcement agency.
Kennedy said most people who
attempt to get fake IDs are caught
after the transaction takes place,
but more and more are being
caught during the transaction.
Stanley Cooper, director of the
Bureau of Vital Statistics, said a
person must come in or write the
office and pay a $6 fee to get a birth
certificate. People that come in
must show a valid drivers license
and a Social Security number.
The penalty for attempting to
obtain or obtaining someone else’s
birth certificate is $10,000 or five
years in prison or both, Cooper
said.
Rocke said he collects confis
cated false identifications regu
larly, but all he can really do is tag
them as evidence. He said he tries
to contact the people named cm the
license, but he actively pursues it
only if there’s enough evidence to
make a case.
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