Shakopee Man Busted with Fake ID Mere Feet from Police Officer

A 19-year-old Shakopee man tried to use a fake ID at quite possibly the least ideal time imaginable, passing the license to a bouncer at Toby Keith's with a police officer within eyeshot.

A St. Louis Park officer reports he was talking with a bouncer at the West End establishment on April 11, when he witnessed three males walk up to another bouncer. Patrick Matthew Smith, of Shakopee, presented the bouncer with a Wisconsin driver's license identifying him as 22-year-old Ian Michael McNeill. The officer reports the bouncer looked at the fake ID, then looked directly at him.

"The bouncer then handed me the (license) and told me that it wasn't Patrick," the incident report reads.

Smith turned and started to walk away, but the officer asked him to stop for a moment. The officer then compared the photo on the Wisconsin license with Smith's appearance and observed they did not match.

The officer then proceeded to ask Smith why he would pass a fake ID to a bouncer with a police officer standing right next to him, to which Smith said he did not have an answer. Smith then presented police with his actual Minnesota license, which officers said matched his appearance and showed him to actually be 19.

Smith told officers he was in town with his college friends and that he was the only one who wasn't already over 21. He claimed a friend had given him the Wisconsin driver's license and that he had used it before to get into bars. Officers confiscated the license and entered it into evidence, according to the report.

Smith was issued a citation for using another's driver's license, advised that he was not allowed back to Toby Keith's and told to return to his hotel room. 

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