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Article: BUS DRIVER CONVICTED IN SCHEME TO SELL STOLEN DAY PASSES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 30, 2006
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The Maryland Attorney General issued the following news release:
Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced today that a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City has convicted Francisco Rivera, Jr., 53, of Theft more than $500 and Conspiracy to Commit Theft.
During the three day trial, the jury heard evidence that Rivera, a Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) bus driver, engaged in a scheme to illegally print day passes from his MTA bus and then sell those passes at a discount on the black market. Rivera, of Park Heights Avenue in Baltimore City, boarded his assigned bus ½ hour early on the morning of April 17, 2003, and printed out 334 day passes in 21 minutes prior ...