A 22-year-old University of Georgia student landed in jail Wednesday, less than two weeks after he was put on probation as the leader of a large fake ID ring on campus.
William Findley Trosclair was sentenced Oct. 16 in an elaborate fake ID scheme that involved 20 other UGA students and included door-to-door service for underage students wanting IDs to get them into bars.
On Monday, Trosclair was required to start serving 60 to 120 days in a probation detention center as part of his five-year probation sentence, the Athens Banner Herald reported.
He showed up at the local jail at 6:40 a.m, not 6 a.m. as he had been ordered. A bus for the detention center had already left, and jail officials turned him away, the newspaper reported.
A Superior Court judge subsequently signed a warrant for Trosclair’s arrest on a probation violation.
And at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, Trosclair was in the Athens-Clark County jail, records show.
The day he was sentenced, Trosclair pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges, including that he manufactured and distributed false identification documents, the newspaper reported.
Trosclair had been sentenced under the state First Offender Act, meaning he had a chance to have his record expunged if he followed the terms of his probation.
Trosclair was one of 21 students indicted in July after a two-year UGA police investigation of a fake ID ring.
Authorities said the operation headed by Trosclair and his then-roommate, Tyler Andrew Ruby, provided door-to-door service for underage students wanting IDs to get them into bars, the newspaper reported.
Couriers took photos of customers in their dorm rooms, collected personal information for the IDs and delivered the finished product at prices that ranged from $50 to $100, it was reported.
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