McLovin would not be pleased.
A graphic artist with a printing business in Greenhills mall, San Juan City has been arrested after he was found to have been producing fake IDs for underage students.
The arrest happened during an entrapment operation on Friday, ABS-CBN News reported. The suspect was identified as Angelito Benipayo, a 40-year-old graphic artist who has a stall in Greenhills Shopping Center’s Theatre Mall, Abante wrote.
Police got word about the business after a complaint from a Michael Jacinto Mallillin, an employee of an unnamed university, the Daily Tribune reported.
A school security guard allegedly recovered the fake ID from one of the students entering campus. The student eventually confessed that he had the ID made in the Theatre Mall print shop.
The complaint led to the police’s entrapment operation that had an undercover cop pretending to buy a fake ID.
San Juan City police chief Senior Supt. Dindo Reyes told Abante that Benipayo’s shady fake ID business is hidden behind a t-shirt printing stall.
“We heard that [the IDs] are used in establishments, like by minors who pretend that they are already at the age of majority,” he told ABS-CBN News in Filipino.
Each fake ID allegedly costs about PHP350 (US$6.63) a pop. 30 pieces of allegedly fake IDs were found in Benipayo’s possession, the Daily Tribune wrote.
Authorities also confiscated Benipayo’s computer, printer, and scanner, ABS-CBN News reported.
The suspect said that he did not know that what he was doing was illegal.
“Everyone makes school IDs,” he told ABS-CBN News.
Benipayo has been charged with falsification of private documents and of violating the Intellectual Property Code.
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