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FL: Miami federal jury convicts man in murder of U.S. postal carrier in ID-theft scheme

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Dissent

We usually think of the financial or medical risks associated with ID theft.  But murder to engage in ID theft?

Jay Weaver reports:

In December 2010, Bruce Parton was murdered in broad daylight while doing a job he had enjoyed for 30 years: delivering the mail.

On Thursday, a federal jury found a Miami-Dade man guilty of fatally shooting Parton as part of a plot to steal people’s identities and file fraudulent income-tax refunds in their names.

The jury found that Pikerson J. Mentor, 30, killed Parton, 60, of Pembroke Pines, for his master key so that he and a partner could access mailboxes — and the personal financial information inside the mail — belonging to residents of North Miami-Dade apartment complexes.

Read more in the Miami Herald

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