Police: Flanders Man Arrested For Using Fake Documents, Signing Under Fake Name at DMV

A Flanders man was arrested on Tuesday morning for giving fake documents at the Riverhead DMV, according to Riverhead Town Police.

Salvatore R. Centore, 43, was arrested as the result of an investigation conducted in cooperation with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles Investigator Unit, police said.

According to the Riverhead Times Review, he allegedly used a social security card that was not his and he signed documents using a fake name.

He was charged with first degree offering a false instrument and second degree criminal possession a forged instrument, police said.

He was arrested and processed at Riverhead Police Headquarters, police said.

Centore was arraigned in Riverhead Justice Court where he was remanded to the Suffolk County Correctional Facility to be returned on a later court date.

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