Two employees of the state Department of Licensing and a Kirkland man were sentenced Friday for their organization of a scheme to sell fake identification documents out of the Bellevue DOL office.

Rodrigo Moura, 33, a Brazilian immigrant was sentenced to two years in prison. After serving his term, Moura will likely be deported, according to a Department of Justice press release.

Melanie Yoder, 46, has been on leave from DOL since her arrest last June. She was sentenced to two months in prison, four months of home detention and two years of supervised release.

Ana-Marie Lizares, 52, who quit her DOL job after her arrest, was sentenced to eight months in prison and two years of supervised release.

“When you put false identifications in the stream of commerce … you have no idea what the consequences might be,” said U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones at the sentencing hearing.

The case began in 2009 when the FBI received a tip that Moura was herding people to the Bellevue DOL office to receive fraudulent identification cards and driver’s licenses. Investigators learned that people were coming to the particular office from all over the country to get Washington licenses.

According to the release, Washington State was an easy target for this scheme because it doesn’t require proof of legal immigration. However, the state does require documentation of residency, and these applicants did not meet that provision.

Moura allegedly picked the applicants up at the airport, gave them necessary information to answer any test questions and a fake address for the application. He then arranged for applicants to be processed by either Yoder or Lizares at the Bellevue DOL office.

Moura, the leader of the group according to the release, sold the documents for $3,000 a piece and paid out $500 to Yoder or Lizares. Investigators determined that Yoder sold 20-25 licenses and collected approximately $5,000. Lizares doubled that output.