East Harlem Garage Employee Charged With Faking Car Inspections

East Harlem Garage Employee Charged With Faking Car Inspections
September 1, 2011 4:19pm | By Jeff Mays, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

A worker at the garage at 1851 Park Ave. was one of four people arrested for allegedly issuing false inspection materials. (DNAinfo/Jeff Mays)

HARLEM—A licensed Department of Motor Vehicles inspector from an East Harlem garage was one of four people charged with allegedly issuing more than 7,000 safety inspection certificates without testing the vehicles, State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Thursday.

Cirilo Ventura, 45, an employee at 1995 First Avenue Station Inc., located at 1851 Park Ave. at East 127th Street,  was one of those charged with various felonies including criminal possession of a forged Instrument, issuing a false certificate and illegal issuance of an emission certificate of inspection.
The other three people charged worked at stations in the Bronx. The four stations involved are among the city's busiest, according to the attorney general's office. The charges carry jail time ranging from 1 to 7 years in prison and fines of $15,000 per count.

“These individuals were trusted to perform state-required inspections that keep unsafe cars off the road, but instead they took advantage of their expertise to cheat the system,” Schneiderman said in a statement.

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