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A man convicted of two separate crimes after being arrested for causing a car collision on the highway while drunk has been sentenced to 15 months behind bars.
Last March, the Jordanian defendant broke into a man’s car and stole his CPR card, and was able to get away with it until he decided to present the card to policemen after an accident in April.
When the 36-year-old defendant arrived at the Interior Ministry Police Fort clinic for a blood alcohol test, he told officers that he was not the person on the card. He presented his brother’s CPR card instead, claiming the document to be his.
Blood test results and the accident were both recorded under his brother’s name, though the General Directorate of Traffic detention centre management eventually caught on to the ploy.
The defendant ended up informing authorities of his real name, and confessed to twice using CPR cards that were not his.
The High Criminal Court found the Jordanian guilty of impersonation, misusing identification documents and theft.
On top of the sentence, judges ordered to deport him after completing his jail term.
The GDN earlier reported that during questioning, the man admitted to lying to his brother who was in Jordan at the time of the incident, in order to obtain his CPR card, claiming that he needed it to open a business in his name.
Then, he used the identification to fill out an alcohol test form, and was charged with falsely populating it with his brother’s personal information and submitting it to a well-meaning civil servant.
Only after calling the defendant did the Jordanian find out that his sibling was in traffic police custody for driving under the influence.
Court documents state that a few weeks before the incident, the man broke into another person’s car and stole his CPR card.
The man whose CPR card was stolen had earlier lodged a police report about the theft, and even provided CCTV footage which was later used to confirm the defendant’s identity.
“In March, I came out of my house and realised that my wallet was stolen from my car. It contained my CPR, driver’s licence and four bank cards,” he testified.
“In April, I received a call from the General Directorate of Traffic, where I found out that the defendant used my card. I positively identified him.”
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