If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get new posts via email. Thanks for visiting!As a former cub scout, I always think you should be prepared. Obviously Crystal Star Wright of Tempe Arizona believes in that too, because she was prepared for any event.
On March 18, Wright […]

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Somehow Kansas City seems to be a hotbed of identity theft. First the Kenyan id theft ring, and now a KC man has finally been sentenced to a massive identity theft ring that was busted in 2006.
Carlton Strother has been sentenced in federal court to 19 years 6 months in prison and ordered to […]

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If there is some sort of world record for identity theft speed, James Hartman has to be up near the top. In 3 months, he spent $3.2 million on vehicles and real estate. More incredibly, he did this with a photocopy of his brother’s drivers license and Social Security card. A photocopy!
If there is any […]

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Aside from being the home of Warren Buffet, Omaha was also the home of a identity theft bust that involved 2 police officers, a pregnant woman, a broken vase, and a man getting shot in the chest.
It All Started At A Church
At a church outside Omaha’s city limits, a woman left her purse in the […]

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You know how it goes.. you steal some credit cards, go on a buying spree, but just can’t resist those designer cowboy boots. That’ll always get you in the end.
That’s what happened to a charming pair in Bibb County, Georgia. John Fravel and Sebastian Wooley were arrested at a Hampton Inn in Macon, having racked […]

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Here is another case of a police officer charged with identity theft.
We wrote about Brian Coble before, but this time it is Sgt. Mark Warf - an officer from Rutherford County, Tennessee.
Warf is no ordinary beat cop. He was the lead detective on a number of very high-profile murder cases. He had 23 […]

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So you get arrested and charged with 69 counts of fraud, theft, and identity theft which carries a maximum of 35 years in prison, but your lawyers manage to work out a deal where you only have to serve 5. Seems like a pretty good deal right?
Not if you are Tynesha West. In a rare […]

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From the “who can you trust?” department, a police officer in Greensboro, NC has been charged with identity theft.
(Well, if we want to be picky, its really identity fraud).
The officer, Brian Coble, had already been suspended from the force without pay, but these new charges won’t have him back at work anytime soon. He was […]

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A Georgia woman’s quick action led to a person in Santa Rosa, CA being arrested and charged with 152 counts of identity theft, 79 counts of credit card fraud, and possession of stolen property.
The Georgia woman noticed some strange charges on her credit card statement so she quickly called the sheriff’s department. Detectives intercepted the […]

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