The Nation - News from June 22, 1989

An 18-year-old Flushing youth has been charged with stealing a regents exam administered to high school students throughout the state, the New York state attorney general’s office said. State police arrested David Hoffman, a former student at Yeshiva M’Kor Chaim high school in Brooklyn. He was indicted last Thursday by a Brooklyn grand jury on three felonies and one misdemeanor under the state penal code and eight misdemeanors under the state education law. Police spokesman Edward Delaney said the probe began last June “when evidence was uncovered that chemistry, biology and math III regents exams were stolen.” Meanwhile, a probe centering on New York City continued in the theft of at least four of the 17 regents tests. The chemistry test was canceled after the New York Post obtained a copy of the test answer sheet and published it.