{"id":343977,"date":"2026-07-17T22:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343977\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:38:26","slug":"three-arrested-in-driver-license-exam-cheating-scheme-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343977\/","title":{"rendered":"Three arrested in driver license exam cheating scheme | Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three people have been arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to cheat on the Florida driver license knowledge exam at a Miami-Dade County Tax Collector’s office, officials said.<\/p>\n

The arrests followed an investigation by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office (MDSO) Public Corruption Unit<\/a> into fraudulent activity outside the Midway Crossings office. Detectives allege Karel Clavel-Beltran used strategically placed cameras and electronic earpieces to feed answers to Miguel Nu\u00f1ez-Garcia and Alexis Fernandez while they took the computer-based exam.<\/p>\n

Nu\u00f1ez-Garcia and Fernandez face charges related to cheating on the exam, while Clavel-Beltran is accused of facilitating the scheme, according to the Miami-Dade County Office of the Tax Collector.<\/p>\n

“Obtaining a Florida driver license is a privilege, not a right,” Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez said<\/a>. “When individuals attempt to cheat the testing process, they undermine the integrity of the system and put public safety at risk.”<\/p>\n

The investigation was conducted in coordination with the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Detectives say hidden cameras and earpieces were used to feed exam answers to test-takers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to cheat on the Florida driver license…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[141009,140913,141011,126,123,141007,125,124,141008,26203,141010],"class_list":["post-343977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-dariel-fernandez-tax-collector","tag-driver-license-exam-cheating-scheme","tag-flhsmv-driver-license-fraud","tag-key-biscayne","tag-miami","tag-miami-arrests","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-driver-license-fraud-arrest","tag-miami-dade-sheriff","tag-midway-crossings-tax-collector-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}