ISU Police have charged several people with falsifying driver’s licenses in connection with the manufacturing and distributing of IDs.

Mallory Jenkins, 19, freshman in pre-advertising, and Robert Frew, 24, 225 Crystal St. #403, were charged with seven counts of falsification of driver’s licenses, each a serious misdemeanor, said ISU Police Capt. Gene Deisinger.

In March, investigators with ISU Police learned Jenkins was making and selling falsified IDs for roughly $100 on campus, Deisinger said.

Frew and Jenkins, 600 Maple Hall, were unavailable for comment Wednesday.

After a search warrant was executed at Jenkins’ dorm room, police learned Jenkins and her boyfriend, Frew, were making the documents at his apartment. Officers obtained a search warrant for Frew’s apartment and seized computers, digital cameras, scanners, storage devices and two false Minnesota IDs with Jenkins’ name and picture.

Jenkins had used her real name on one and a false name on the other, Deisinger said.

He said seven fake IDs had been created using a Minnesota driver’s license template.

Deisinger said Frew and Jenkins were gathering information on how to make fake IDs and pawn them off. The IDs Jenkins and Frew created were average to below average, compared with others investigators have seen in the past, he said.

“It’s not hard to make a fake ID, but it is challenging to overcome the security devices on the IDs,” he said. Holograph images, as used on Iowa driver’s licenses, the type of light used to examine the licenses and watermark images are all used to prevent unauthorized duplication.

The Iowa Department of Transportation could not be reached for comment.

Charged with falsifying driver’s licenses (a serious misdemeanor) but not with manufacturing them, were: Jennifer Avery, 19, sophomore in pre-business, 622 Maple Hall; Timothy Hucka, 19, freshman in health and human performance, 6342 Larch Hall; Katie Hutchison, 21, junior in marketing, 255 Crystal St. #405; Nicholas Liker, 19, sophomore in industrial engineering, 218 N. Hyland Ave. #201; and Andrew Gerald Pantano, 19, freshman in pre-business, of 203 Ash Ave. Hucka declined to comment, and Pantano and Avery were unavailable.

Liker said it isn’t uncommon for students to have false IDs on campus.

“Everybody does [have a fake ID]; it’s not, like, an uncommon thing,” he said. Liker said he didn’t receive an ID, but inquired about getting one from Frew.

Frew, Liker and Hucka all knew each other from working at Best Buy, 1220 S. Duff Ave., Liker said.

It is more common for students to have IDs that were once someone else’s than to have one manufactured, Liker said.

“Many of the Ames bar managers have gone above and beyond their [basic] training,” Deisinger said.

Barry Tewes, bar manager at Paddy’s, 124 Welch Ave., said all staff members have to go to a class held by the police department. They discuss the thickness of the ID card and how the hologram looks in specific light.

“Paddy’s has a good reputation [for checking IDs],” Tewes said. “We just confiscated one this afternoon already.”

Tewes said all of the confiscated IDs are turned over to police so they can look closer at the number and likeness of the card.

He said fake IDs tend to run in cycles; for example, there will be many from surrounding states for a time, and then there will be many from another state or states for a time.

Frew and Jenkins were transported to the Story County Jail, where each was held on $10,000 bond.