Cops: Worker took bribes for driver’s licenses

Cops: Worker took bribes for driver’s licenses

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former state driver’s license examiner has been charged with taking bribes from immigrants — mostly from the Asian country of Bhutan — in exchange for licenses for which they didn’t pass driving tests.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for 56-year-old Marvin Mills, who doesn’t have a listed phone and couldn’t be reached at a family junk-hauling business in Fayette County.

That’s also the county where Mills formerly worked at the Uniontown Driver’s License Center.

State police have charged Mills with taking 16 bribes, but say he tested 346 Bhutanese drivers from June 2009 until August, when the alleged scheme was detected, and failed only seven. Mills reportedly passed the last 218 Bhutanese immigrants he tested.

The charges have been filed by the state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Organized Crime Unit.