Police say a man was getting paid to take written driver's permit tests for people who couldn't pass on their own. 

Brooklyn resident Mario Gedeon, 64, was charged with felony filing a false instrument.

Gedeon would frequent the DMV office in Bethpage, deliberately failing his own exam and then switching exams with the person who paid him to take it, police say.

In one instance, a man paid Gedeon $800 to take the test.

"If you can't pass the permit test, the basics of the rules of the road, then you have absolutely no business being on Long Island roadways," says Alec Slatky, of AAA.

The DMV replaced paper permit tests with electronic exams to prevent this type of incident from happening again.

Gedeon was sentenced to five years' probation and a $1,000 fine.