VAN NUYS : DMV Clerk Arrested in Fraudulent License Sales

A Department of Motor Vehicles employee suspected of selling more than 200 fraudulent driver’s licenses to driving instructors told authorities that other employees in her Arleta office engaged in similar scams, a prosecutor said Friday.

Authorities said that over a two-year period, Selma Harb, 25, funneled more than 200 licenses to a father-son team of driving instructors, who sold them on the street for as much as $500. All three were arrested Wednesday.

DMV spokesman Evan Nossoff said Harb, a DMV clerk for five years, received about $50 per license from Wilfredo Sanchez, 45, of Tarzana and his son Frank, 21, of North Hills. Both were instructors at Delta Driving School in Eagle Rock.

Harb will be charged with computer fraud and the Sanchezes with perjuring a driver’s license, bribery of a public employee and two counts of computer fraud, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Steven Ipsen. “The masterminds appear to be the driving instructors,” he said.