SUNRISE, Fla. — A woman who worked at the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is facing 77 felony charges in Broward County after authorities said she helped issue driver’s licenses under stolen identities for other participants in an organized fraud scheme.
Florida Highway Patrol investigators said Quonteria Lameshae Dixon, 37, of northwest Miami-Dade, helped process at least 10 fraudulent transactions while working as a driver’s license examiner at the DHSMV office at 3511 N. Pine Island Road in Sunrise.
Those cases involved other suspects submitting phony paperwork using real personal information of victims from Florida and other states. According to an arrest warrant, participants in the scheme went on to use the fictitious identification documents to finance vehicles and commit other forms of fraud…