In a statement, Ohio Department of Public Safety Director Andy Wilson confirmed to Fox News that investigators with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Ohio State Highway Patrol uncovered conflicting identity information in state and federal records after Ngom’s arrest.
Ngom, he said, entered the United States in the 1990s and used multiple names and dates of birth to obtain state and federal identification documents.
Wilson alleged that Ngom fraudulently obtained a new Ohio driver’s license and later a commercial driver’s license in 2007 under an alternate identity and was later naturalized as a U.S. citizen under that same identity before changing his name back to Modou Ngom in 2015.
Wilson said he directed state investigators to turn the information over to Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further investigation. He said the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio and the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office were also notified.
Fox News Digital reached out to ICE.
LISTEN: 911 call captures fiery horror after driver allegedly used fake identity to get CDL
The crash unfolded in chaos, according to a 911 call and dispatch records obtained by Fox News.
"People are stuck in the car," one caller told dispatchers as flames spread.
Another voice on the call said, "They're definitely dead. The fire is, like, huge," while callers reported that multiple vehicles and the semi were burning.
"A lot of people are out of their vehicles and stopped in the middle of the highway," another female caller is heard telling the dispatcher. "Like, it's pretty bad."
homicide charges, according to police. He was indicted by a Delaware County grand jury on the seven felony charges April 16.