Crime & Safety

Radnor College Students Caught Trying to Buy Fake IDs

A man named Dean ordered fake IDs online, authorities said. They got delivered to the school's actual dean.

It all started when a man named Dean ordered fake IDs online, to be delivered to him at the Radnor Township college he attends. But when the package showed up at the campus mailroom, authorities said, it was delivered to the university’s actual dean.

Radnor Township Police on Friday declined to identify the student or the university, The Philadelphia Inquirer said. Villanova and Eastern universities and Cabrini College are all within the township.

When the dean opened the package, shipped from Guangzhou, China, he found eight realistic fake IDs, authorities said.

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“You can’t make this up,” Radnor Township Police Superintendent William Colarulo told the Inquirer.

No charges will be filed, CBS says, because the students never received the fake IDs, and thus didn’t actually break any laws.

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But the students didn’t get off scot-free, the Inquirer says -- the university contacted all their parents.

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