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Police: Man steals ID to get surgery

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Dissent

Brian Stanley reports:

It’s said to know who you really are, you should look into your heart.

But police say one man used someone else’s identity while undergoing heart surgery and left a mentally disabled man on the hook for $350,000 in medical costs.

Full story – The Herald News


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