from Michigan LIVE! dot-com 3 p.m. posting August 16, 2012
A man Bulgarian authorities believe is connected to the July 18 suicide bombing in the country that killed six was using a fake Michigan driver's license with a Grand Rapids address.
The Bulgarian Interior Ministryreleased images of the fake license, bearing the name Ralph William Rico. It also shows an incorrect Grand Rapids address line and a farfetched expiration date of June 19, 2025.
According to reporting by the Jerusalem Post staff, Bulgarian authorities have not specified how the man might be involved with the July 18 attack at an airport in the Bulgarian city of Burgas.
The bombing left five Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver dead. Bulgarian authorities said the man may have tried to use aliases other than what is on the fake ID.
The identification appears authentic, including the backside, which bears organ donation information found on all Michigan IDs. There are, however, several discrepancies.
The address and city lines, however, appear to be combined. The address reads "42 Pearl Street," and what would be an accompanying NW was bumped down to the city line.
The address on Pearl Street comes back to a location in downtown Grand Rapids, between Ionia and Ottawa avenues.
The driver's license number also begins with "A," when it should begin with "R" for the last name of Rico. The birthday line appears to be copied from the license's expiration date, is off-center and should be in black type.
Other discrepancies include no watermarked photo under the expiration date, the otherwise correct zip code's +4 digits are missing and, despite the man wearing glasses in the photo, the license has no "corrective lens" restriction.
Messages were left with Grand Rapids police Capt. Jeffrey Hertel of the department's investigative unit and the U.S. Marshals for the Western District of Michigan about whether Bulgarian authorities had contacted them about the fake driver's license.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/08/fake_grand_rapids_id_tied_to_b.html#incart_river_default
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