Overview
- Florida Highway Patrol arrested five men in Jacksonville on felony charges tied to an alleged commercial driver’s license testing scheme.
- Investigators say test-takers hid a phone strapped to the chest to live‑stream on‑screen questions to an accomplice who supplied answers through an earpiece.
- Some suspects wore altered shirts to conceal the camera setup, and each requested an interpreter after stating he could not read or speak English.
- Earlier Jacksonville cases led to one eight‑month prison sentence, another defendant transferred to ICE for deportation, and three dismissals after court‑ordered measures.
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that some truck weigh stations and agricultural inspection sites will operate as ICE checkpoints following a deadly August 12 crash.