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TWO GET PROBATION, FINES FOR LICENSE SCHEME

A former supervisor of the Motor Vehicles Bureau on St. John was sentenced to three and a half years of probation Tuesday for her role in a 1998 driver's license scam.
Brenda Hendricks was also fined $2,100 and ordered to serve six months of her sentence under home detention, according to Hugh Mabe, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Hendricks was arrested in the summer of 1998 for selling drivers' licenses to people who has not passed the driver's license examination. She pleaded guilty in September of that year.
Laurie Sewer, who was found guilty of directing customers to Hendricks and of bribery, was also sentenced Tuesday. He received three years and four months on probation and was fined $600. Mabe, who is an assistant U.S. attorney, said Sewer's sentence includes four months of home detention with electorinic monitoring.
Benoit Stuart, also accused of being a middle-man in the illegal licensing operation, recently changed his plea to guilty for his part in the scheme. Mabe said sentencing for Stuart is pending.
Hendricks was terminated from her Motor Vehicles position. Neither Sewer nor Stuart was employed by the bureau.
According to Mabe, Hendricks and Sewer cooperated with investigators and received lesser sentences as part of a plea bargain agreement. He said the sentences handed down by U.S. District Judge Thomas Moore were consistent with federal sentencing guidelines.

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