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(follow-up) FL: 5th suspect held in ID-theft ring targeting Holy Cross patients

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Dissent

Juan Ortega reports:

Federal authorities have arrested the last of five suspects in an identity-theft ring that targeted patients at Holy Cross Hospital.

Jimmy Lee Theodore, 27, of Pembroke Pines, was taken into custody Tuesday, charged with using patients’ stolen identities to obtain debit cards, authorities said.

[…]

As a precaution, Holy Cross sent letters to 44,000 patients who visited the emergency room from April 2009 to September 2010, warning them to make sure their personal information is not misused.

Read more on SunSentinel.com

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