People v. Oh CA4/3

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Defendant is a former mayor, and city councilmember, for the City of Buena Park. In October 2010, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office received election-related complaints about defendant. The case was assigned to Investigator Stanley Berry. During the course of Berry’s investigation, he discovered evidence suggesting defendant had two California driver’s licenses. In December, Berry contacted the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), and asked one of their investigators, Francisco Paredes, for information. Paredes did some research and discovered the driver’s license numbers Berry identified were linked to individuals with similar names, but different social security numbers. He decided to investigate whether one, or both, of the driver’s licenses had been the subject of identity theft. In January 2011, Paredes asked defendant to come to the DMV office in Irvine for an interview. Defendant brought some documents with him showing his name, Sangjin Miller Oh, or Sang J. Oh, his date of birth (January 1964), and a social security number beginning with 602.

2 Paredes showed defendant another driver’s license with the name Robert S. Oh, a date of…