Police on July 30 arrested a 20-year-old Norwalk man and charged him with second-degree forgery, a felony offense.
At about 9:36 p.m. on that Sunday night, an officer on patrol spotted a moped traveling on Main Street with a defective headlight, according to a police report.
The officer conducted a stop and, through further investigation, found that the operator was using a fraudulent ID card, the report said.
The man was taken into custody and charged at police headquarters, it said.
Under state law, a person is guilty of second-degree forgery if he or she “with intent to defraud, deceive or injure another, he falsely makes, completes or alters a written instrument or issues or possesses any written instrument which he knows to be forged, which is or purports to be, or which is calculated to become or represent if completed,” such as a “deed, will, codicil, contract, assignment, commercial instrument or other instrument which does or may evidence, create, transfer, terminate or otherwise affect a legal right, interest, obligation or status,” among other reasons.
The man was released on $500 bond and scheduled to appear Aug. 14 in state Superior Court.