SARATOGA SPRINGS (AP) -- Authorities say high tech, fake driver licenses used by a group of upstate New York teens were the product of a global network based in China.
Saratoga Springs police say the arrest of an 18-year-old man who bolted from a local liquor store after his ID was questioned led to the arrests of 10 other high school students, two recent graduates and a Skidmore College student. A parent is accused of helping the teens pay for the fakes.
Police say they're investigating about 30 other high schoolers and under-age drinking parties at peoples' homes.
Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy says the IDs were ordered online from Beijing, money was sent to Indonesia and the licenses were forged in eastern Europe. They are sophisticated enough to fool electronic scanners.
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