UGA students busted for making fake IDs in dorm
Most college dorms barely have enough room for two beds and two desks. It’s hard to imagine having enough room to run a business.
But three University of Georgia students apparently found a way. The trio is facing dozens of felony charges for allegedly producing fake identification cards to sell to underage students.
Following a tip from another roommate, investigators found several phony IDs, a laminating machine and other materials in a room in the East Campus Village. One student was apparently making the IDs and his two friends helped sell them.
“I think at this age, you never think you’re going to get caught,” UGA police Chief Jimmy Williamson told Channel 2 Action News.
But they did get caught, and this ring is believed to be small in comparison to a larger one currently under investigation.
Are fake IDs a part of college, or should university officials continue to crack down on dorm businesses like this?
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RGB
September 13th, 2012
8:38 am
When one of their underage “customers” gets drunk, gets behind the wheel, and kills your sister, please be sure to go to his trial and point out that the “customer” was just a victim of some ambitious entrepreneurs. No harm was intended as these guys were just trying to make a little extra money.
Then ask the judge that all charges against the person who killed your sister be dropped. Next, take him to the car lot, buy him a new car, and then go to another illegal ID place, buy another fake ID–all to ensure that he’s not inconvenienced the next time he goes to the liquor store.
Do that and then we’ll know that you have conviction about this “harmless” idea.
oneup
September 13th, 2012
8:39 am
i agree with the idea if you can serve the country and vote you should be able to drink but if they were off campus and were older adults with this business they would also be charged. Dumb college students at UGA here’s an idea get a real job!
stupid-DAD
September 13th, 2012
8:40 am
Lower the drinking age to 18, oh please! Alcohol impairs your judgement, an 18 year old has impaired judgement sober. Raise the drinking age to 25.
LaLa in Loganville
September 13th, 2012
8:40 am
You don’t even need fake ids at UGA. When I was a student there, I was NEVER once asked for my age or ID. The bars downtown don’t care.
Drudge
September 13th, 2012
8:41 am
Wednesday – I will put this back on you – why do you have to bring Romney into this? It isn’t he who is looting anything – it is the man who has racked up 60% more debt at a rate 3X faster than any other president, tripled the number of people on food stamps and committed us to $36T in unfunded liabilities over the next decade. If you want to talk about looting – just ask your children/grandchildren in 20 years where their nest egg is…
What a hoot
September 13th, 2012
8:41 am
@JB, .. I couldnt agree more.. I am not sure what was accomplished by changing the drinking age. It still happens .. and will happen… and I agree, if someone is old enough to die for this country, then they should be old enough to order a cold beer.
See no Evil
September 13th, 2012
8:42 am
From the response of the UGA alum on this board it seems that and education is not as important as getting the party going. Maybe this is why this state is in such disrepair and is run by morons. It’s ok to give a student an ILLEGAL ID but condem a person for being here illegally. They are both illegal. Who is to say that the students are not selling false IDs to criminals, like those who file off serial numbers of guns and drive around campus. It seems this kind of ID was busted a few years ago too.
Idiot Commenters
September 13th, 2012
8:48 am
It also wouldn’t be a problem if you lowered the drinking age to 4, repealed all the immigration laws and made heroin legal.
You enforce the laws, not ignore them because more people break them. And people go to jail for breaking laws, not for the sake of putting people in jail at tax payers expense. It’s to protect us and punish criminal.
I’m surprised some of you can power on a computer, let alone read the paper.
GT
September 13th, 2012
8:48 am
One of the reason America is not getting it done now days is a lot of tight asses are running the show. You didn’t see this when we were fighting World War II or the years after. You saw an American spirit that tared and feathered these crab apples who got in the way. Steven Jobs was selling illegal long distance phone boxes before he evolved into Apple. We need more of these juice not less.
jabster
September 13th, 2012
8:48 am
Tip to UGA students: You can get all the fake IDs you want in Chambodia. Leave it to the pros.
Oh, and for the “the law is the law” crowd: Dickens said the law is an @$$. Look it up. Just because a law exists doesn’t make it just. The examples of unjust laws in history are legion.