Cops: Pa. worker took bribes for driver's license

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former state driver’s license examiner has been charged with taking bribes from immigrants, mostly from the Asian country of Bhutan, who were given licenses without having to pass driving tests.

Marvin Mills, 56, of Vanderbilt, was freed after his arraignment today on 16 counts of bribery and two of tampering with public records.

Mills formerly worked at the Uniontown Driver’s License Center in Fayette County, some 40 miles south of Pittsburgh. There, he tested 346 Bhutanese drivers from June 2009 until August, when the alleged scheme was detected, and failed only seven, state police said in a criminal complaint. Mills reportedly passed all 218 Bhutanese immigrants he’d tested since February 2011.

Online records don’t list an attorney for Miller, who doesn’t have a listed phone and couldn’t be reached at a family junk-hauling business in Fayette County.

PennDOT community relations coordinator Craig Yetter said officials suspected a scam, though he didn’t say why, and referred the matter to the state police.