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Duke research technician charged in fake ID bust


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Robert Wayne Bullock
Robert Wayne Bullock

A Duke University employee is accused of making fake driver’s licenses and selling them to college students.

Robert Wayne Bullock, 23, is charged with six counts of selling fake IDs in Wake County and one count of possession of stolen property in Orange County.

A few months ago, authorities said they began confiscating a lot of fake IDs in Raleigh clubs and bars. An investigation of those IDs led authorities to Bullock.

Authorities said Bullock, of 2721 Walker Road, Hillsborough, was using a stolen Division of Motor Vehicles computer to make the IDs. The machine was stolen from the agency's Louisburg office in September 2006.

Bullock sold the fake IDs for as much as $150 to students at North Carolina State University.

East Village Bar and Grill, on the corner of Hillsborough Street and Dixie Trail, is a popular hangout for students. The bar often confiscates fake IDs from students.

“If it’s a real ID, it has all the holograms on it,” said Wes Noblett, with East Village Bar and Grill.

Noblett said he was glad to hear of the fake ID bust.

"We are really liable for stuff like that. If they do get in here and start getting served and kill someone and somebody else,” Noblett said.

Bullock is employed as a scientist at Duke University and is a North Carolina State University graduate. Duke lists him as a research technician working on drug delivery in the Pratt Engineering School's Cartilage Mechanics and Tissue Engineering Laboratory.

He was released Tuesday afternoon from the Wake County Jail on a $5,000 bond.

Authorities said they are in the process of searching Bullock's computer to determine whether other people were involved in the operation.  If so, more arrests are expected.

A representative with the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission said this is the largest driver’s license fraud case he has seen in 20 years.

RELATED TOPICS: Wake County, Orange County, Duke University, Hillsborough, Raleigh, NC State University

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"the problem is only soldiers are mature enough to drink under 21. all the spoiled brats fresh out of high school would never fit in at the same establishments i frequent" -dholder97

Very few are mature at 18. Soldiers are no exception.

Yea this kind of stuff happens all over the place.

We had someone who could make fake IDs in high school.

treebee, you act like this is exclusive to Duke... The guy making the IDs was an NC State grad anyway, not a Duke grad, so he certainly didn't learn his trade at Duke. I can also make guarantee you that people at every college in the country have fake IDs.

This would not be in the news if he were making the fake id's for illegal immigrants. The government would probably give him a helper employee.

"Isn't it illogical that in this country we can go off to war where we could likely kill someone, but can't drink a bottle of beer?"

Yes, but maybe the solution is to raise the age to go off to war. :)

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