'Used Car King' pleads guilty to scheme to sell temporary Texas tags
The seal for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas sits on a chair in the Federal Courthouse Tuesday Sept. 18, 2018 in Houston.A New York man who billed himself as the Used Car King of New York on Tuesday pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a Houston federal court andOctavian Ocasio, 51, of New York, sold the tags to people in New York, Florida and Washington, D.C, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas.
Prosecutors said they had emails with copies of the tags that Ocasio sent to buyers and Cash App records of people paying him for the tags. The electronic payments were labeled by the the customers as"temp tag,""tag" and"car plates," according to court documents.Prosecutors alleged that the group printed more than 700,000 fake tags between July 2019 and January 2021.
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