Lita Beck and Ken Kalthoff report:
A California man who stole thousands of identities, including those of U.S. service members, was sentenced Thursday in Dallas to more than six years in federal prison.
Rene Quimby, 42, pleaded guilty in May to one count of fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft in the case, which involved the Dallas-based Army and Air Force Exchange Service.
Prosecutors said Quimby, of Redlands, Calif., had more than 16,000 identities on his computer. He used various file-sharing programs to download files with personal information from the computers of his victims.
“One of the things he downloaded was a roster from a particular military base that had very detailed information about where people were stationed, their names, their date of rank, date of birth,” U.S. Attorney Frank Gatto said.
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Quimby used the personal information of about 650 people to purchase more than $200,000 worth of merchandise from AAFES website and then sell it, prosecutors said.
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