State v. Thompson

OPINION

KLEINSCHMIDT, Judge.

¶ 1 The Defendant was convicted of six counts of forgery and five counts of tampering with a public record in connection with transactions she processed as an employee of the Motor Vehicle Division (“MVD”) of the Arizona Department of Transportation. We affirm.

¶ 2 The case arose as follows. A man named Michael Jimenez made a business of processing MVD documents to register motor vehicles for people, like illegal aliens, who did not want to do it themselves. Jimenez made frequent visits to the MVD, and the Defendant, whom Jimenez was paying under the table, would…