Cesar Agusto Martin Reis, Driver’s License Conspiracy, Massachusetts 2025

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Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty to Multi-State Driver’s License Scheme

BOSTON – A Brazilian national illegally residing in Waterbury, Conn., has pleaded guilty to conspiring to obtain driver’s licenses for ineligible applicants, principally illegal aliens.

Cesar Agusto Martin Reis, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to unlawfully produce and possess with intent to transfer identification documents, and one count of possession with intent to use or transfer unlawfully identification documents. U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman scheduled sentencing for Sept. 10, 2025.

Reis was charged along with four co-conspirators in December 2024. From November 2020 through September 2024, Reis and his alleged co-conspirators fraudulently procured driver’s licenses for illegal alien customers who resided in states that prohibited illegal aliens from obtaining driver’s licenses.

The scheme involved obtaining several pictures of the customers sitting down, making it look as if they were taking the permit tests. Reis conspired with his alleged co-conspirators to complete the permit tests for the customers online and, when prompted by the NY DMV to take pictures during the tests, to upload the pictures that the customers previously provided – purporting to show that it was the customers who were taking the tests, not the defendants.

The NY DMV also required that applicants appear at a NY DMV location and provide documents to prove their identity and residence in New York. Reis conspired with his alleged co-conspirators to meet Massachusetts-based customers at locations in Massachusetts – typically several customers at a time – and drive them to NY DMV branch locations.

In exchange for fraudulently obtaining the driver’s licenses, Reis and his alleged co-conspirators typically charged approximately $1,400 per customer.

Reis is set to be sentenced on Sept. 10, 2025, and faces up to 20 years in prison on the conspiracy charge and up to 10 years in prison on the possession charge, with the actual sentence to be determined by the court.

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