Entering another person’s identification into a mandatory law-enforcement record is the large part.

It is a false entry in a required record and it is a felony, and the reason it is a felony is that the entire system only works because the names in it are real.

That database is how a department finds a stolen wedding ring.

It is how they find the tools out of a plumber’s van, and the catalytic converters, and the laptop out of a car at a trailhead.

It works because every single line in it is a real person with a real thumbprint who can be found and asked where they got the thing.