A 29-year-old woman was arrested last week after spending four days fraudulently enrolled in a New Jersey high school as a student, district officials said.
The woman, identified by New Brunswick Police as Hyejeong Shin, of New Brunswick, was charged with one count of providing a false government document with the intent to verify one’s identity or age.
Police said she showed a false birth certificate “with the intent to enroll as a juvenile high-school student.”
New Brunswick Public School District Superintendent Aubrey Johnson said Tuesday during a Board of Education meeting that Shin had attended New Brunswick High School for several days before she was caught.
“Last week by filing some false documents, an adult female posing as a student was able to be enrolled in our high school,” Johnson said, according to video of the meeting shared on Twitter by reporter Charlie Kratovil of New Brunswick Today.
During her days in school, Shin spent a lot of time with guidance counselors…
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