Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Southern California man faces charges he counterfeited registration tags for license plates. Frederico Mucio, 45, San Bernardino, Calif., was arrested over the weekend in Loma Linda, Calif., during a traffic stop at which time he allegedly flashed a supposed CIA identification card to an unmoved deputy sheriff, The Riverside Press Enterprise report Monday. Advertisement San Bernardino County detectives later searched Mucio's home and found a collection of license plates from several states plus the U.S. government. Each allegedly had a fake registration tag on it. The Riverside Press Enterprise said investigators contacted the CIA -- plus the FBI and Department of Homeland Security -- in an attempt to verify Mucio's alleged claim to be an agent.
