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This article is © 2002- Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)

Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
LAST LICENSE FRAUD SUSPECT SENTENCED TO TIME SERVED, PROBATION

Date:August 20, 2002
Section: Metro
Page: B2

Source: Lela Garlington

Memo: METRO & MID-SOUTH BRIEFS
Edition: Final





The last of the driver's license fraud suspects - Sakher Hammad - was placed on two years' probation Monday and was sentenced to time served.


Four of the other defendants also were sentenced to time served earlier. Three are still being held and are facing deportation for being in the country illegally.

"I want to get on with my life," Hammad told U.S. Dist. Judge Bernice Donald.

After the Jordanian naturalized citizen was arrested in February, Hammad, 25, of Brooklyn was held in prison for 51 days until he made bond. Although federal prosecutors initially hinted that the case might be tied to the World Trade Center disaster, there was no evidence any were involved in terrorist activities.

The death of Katherine Smith, the Memphis driver's license examiner accused of being the inside source for the licenses, remains unsolved. She died in a fiery car crash the day before her first court appearance in February.

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The last of the driver's license fraud suspects - Sakher Hammad - was placed on two years' probation Monday and was sentenced to time served.

After the Jordanian naturalized citizen was arrested in February, Hammad, 25, of Brooklyn was held in prison for 51 days until he made bond.

The death of Katherine Smith, the Memphis driver's license examiner accused of being the inside source for the licenses, remains unsolved. She died in a fiery car crash the day before her first court appearance in February.