ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE
Case # 14CF3823
Date: April 2, 2015
SANTA ANA – A former California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Investigator is scheduled to be arraigned today for submitting a traffic ticket for dismissal by forging an officer’s signature. Dennis Allan Svet, 51, Murrieta, is charged with one felony count of offering false documentary evidence, one felony count of falsifying documents, and one misdemeanor count of receiving stolen property. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of three years and eight months in state prison. He is being held on $20,000 bail and is expected to be arraigned today in Department CJ-1, Central Jail, Santa Ana. The time is to be determined.
Svet was a former sworn DMV Investigator but at the time of the crime, he was not employed with the DMV. Continue reading