Third person charged in Lillington license plate agency fraud case [The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.]

Feb. 06--The owner of an Angier insurance company has been charged with hundreds of counts of fraud and conspiracy, becoming the third person to be charged in a scheme to illegally register vehicles on behalf of people without Social Security cards, according to the state Division of Motor Vehicles.

Dalia Sosa Urbina, 42, the owner of J & D Insurance Co. in Angier, is charged by DMV investigators with a combined total of 1,147 counts of title fraud, conspiracy, notary fraud and common-law forgery, as well as misdemeanor counts of violating motor vehicle provisions, said Marge Howell, a DMV spokeswoman.

State insurance investigators also charged Urbina with 25 counts of obtaining property by false pretenses, said Marni Schribman, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Insurance.

Urbina, of Good Circle in Fuquay-Varina, is accused of helping two License Plate Agency officials who were charged last week contact the people whose vehicles they fraudulently titled, Howell said.

"There were Hispanics that were coming into the insurance company and Ms. Urbina was processing their paperwork and notarizing it, charging for taking that paperwork to DMV," Howell said. "I don't believe the people went to DMV, so she was taking the paperwork to DMV on their behalf."

Schribman said Urbina notarized vehicle titles and claimed vehicles were insured when they were not. Urbina was also not authorized to write insurance for the companies she claimed to be documenting, she said.

The investigation is continuing with more charges pending, Schribman said.

Urbina was arrested Friday and was being held at the Harnett County jail with bail set at $500,000.

Two former employees at the Lillington License Plate Agency were charged last week with knowingly taking expired driver's licenses and state-issued identification cards from Hispanics who were getting titles or registration for vehicles.

The people seeking documentation would present licenses or identification cards that were issued before 2006, when the law was changed to require a Social Security card to get such documents.

Lynetta Green, 35, of the 100 block of Woodbridge Drive in Lillington, is charged with 260 counts each of altering vehicle titles and accessing government computers to defraud as well as 260 misdemeanor counts of violating registration provisions.

Janet Faye McLean, 57, of South Second Street in Lillington, is charged with 113 counts each of the same offenses.

It is not clear how much money the three made off their enterprise. The Lillington office at 1190 N. Main St. was shuttered Thursday, after the state canceled a contract because of "inappropriate activities."

J & D Insurance Co. remained in business as of Monday afternoon, Schribman said.

Staff writer James Halpin can be contacted at [email protected] or 486-3509.

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